Meralgia Paresthetica: Relevance, Diagnosis, and Treatment

CONCLUSION: The state of the evidence is limited in both quantity and quality, corresponding to evidence level 2a for surgical and non-surgical methods. Advances in imaging and neurophysiological testing have made the diagnosis easier to establish. When intervention is needed, good success rates have been achieved with surgery (decompression, neurectomy), and variable success rates with infiltration.PMID:37534445 | DOI:10.3238/arztebl.m2023.0170

Source: Deutsches Arzteblatt International - August 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christoph Scholz Marc Hohenhaus Maria Teresa Pedro Anne-Kathrin Uerschels Nora F Dengler Source Type: research