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  • Title: [Meralgia paraesthetica and its surgical treatment].
    Author: Antoniadis G, Braun V, Rath S, Moese G, Richter HP.
    Journal: Nervenarzt; 1995 Aug; 66(8):614-7. PubMed ID: 7566273.
    Abstract:
    Compression neuropathy of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (meralgia paresthetica) leads to pain and dysesthesia in the anterolateral thigh. Over a period of 23 1/2 years, 29 patients (33 procedures) were operated on after failure of conservative treatment: 18 patients (20 procedures) underwent neurolysis of the nerve, and in 11 the nerve was transected. The 33 procedures were necessary because 1 patient had bilateral meralgia paresthetica and there were 3 recurrences with persisting pain. The average follow-up was 32 months after neurolysis and 87 months after transection. Complete or partial pain relief was found in 72% after decompression and in 82% after transection of the nerve.
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