Clinical and electrophysiologic examinations of 1220 patients with spinal osteochondrosis syndromes have made it possible to distinguish two variants of meralgia paresthetica, permanent and transitory ones. Different methods for the management of the syndrome were developed, with due consideration for the aforementioned variants.
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