Current opinion in neurology
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To summarize the current understanding of clinical assessment, pathophysiology, and treatment of pain in neuropathies, focusing on selected entities in which the understanding of the mechanisms underlying pain has advanced recently. ⋯ Advances in the standardization of assessment of patients with painful neuropathies are beginning to have an impact on how clinical studies are designed. Major progress has been made in the understanding of cellular and molecular changes after nerve injury, but their relevance for the pathophysiology of pain in neuropathies has still to be determined.