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Meralgia paresthetica or Meralgia paraesthetica (UK/Australian spelling) (me-ral’-gee-a par-es-thet’-i-ka) (or Bernhardt-Roth syndrome) is numbness or pain in the outer thigh not caused by injury to the thigh but by injury to a nerve that extends from the thigh to the spinal column. This chronic neurological disorder involves a single nerve—the lateral cutaneous nerve of thigh which is also called the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve or lateral femoral cutaneous neuropathy.
