[Surgical treatment of erythromelalgia]

Two children (an 11-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl) with erythromelalgia and uncontrollable pain in the lower extremities were treated by stereotaxic destruction of VPL and CM and (in one case) by partial rhizotomy. Pain in the extremities and the clinical manifestations of erythromelalgia disappeared after surgical treatment (follow-up periods of 5 and 2 years, respectively). The mechanism of the therapeutic effect of these operations is still not clear. Similar cases are not described in the literature.