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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume, Vol 87-B, Issue 3,
410-411.
doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.87B3.15828 Copyright © 2005 by British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery Sciatic neurostenalgia: caused by total hip arthroplasty, cured by late neurolysisA. S. Montgomery, MRCS, Senior House OfficerR. Birch, FRCS, Professor; and A. Malone, MRCS, Specialist Registrar Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit, The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Brockley Hill, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 4LP, UK. Correspondence should be sent to Mr A. S. Montgomery; e-mail: asm{at}doctors.org.uk
We describe a patient with a painful sciatic neuropathy after total hip arthroplasty. Treatment was confined to neuroleptic and analgesic agents until neurolysis at seven years abolished pain and restored function.
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