Flight Lieutenant Peach's observations on Burning Feet Syndrome in Far Eastern Prisoners of War 1942-45.

N T Roocroft; E Mayhew; Meg Parkes; W A Frankland; Geoff Gill; D Bouhassira; A S C Rice

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Flight Lieutenant Peach's observations on Burning Feet Syndrome in Far Eastern Prisoners of War 1942-45.

N T Roocroft, E Mayhew, Meg Parkes, W A Frankland, Geoff Gill, D Bouhassira, A S C Rice

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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Introduction: ‘Burning Feet Syndrome’ affected up to one third of Far Eastern Prisoners of War in World War 2. Recently discovered medical records, produced by RAF Medical Officer Nowell Peach whilst in captivity, are the first to detail neurological examinations of patients with this condition.

Methods: The 54 sets of case notes produced at the time were analysed using modern diagnostic criteria to determine if the syndrome can be retrospectively classed as neuropathic pain.

Results: With a history of severe malnutrition raising the possibility of a peripheral polyneuropathy, and a neuroanatomically plausible pain distribution, this analysis showed that Burning Feet Syndrome can now be described as a ‘possible’ neuropathic pain syndrome.

Conclusion: After 70 years, the data painstakingly gathered under the worst of circumstances have proved to be of interest and value in modern diagnostics of neuropathic pain.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	131-139
Number of pages	9
Journal	QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
Volume	110
Issue number	3
Early online date	15 Nov 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcw195
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 15 Nov 2016

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