Poletti C E
Neurosurgery. 1983 Feb;12(2):221-4. doi: 10.1227/00006123-198302000-00017.
The common association of occipital neuralgia with post-traumatic cervical arthritis raises the question of whether some cases of occipital neuralgia are due to delayed C-2 or C-3 root entrapment. This hypothesis led to surgical exploration of the C-3 and C-2 roots in a young patient with post-traumatic arthritic occipital neuralgia. The abnormal operative findings and resolution of the neuralgia after C-3 foraminal and C-2 fascial root decompression lead to the tentative proposal that some cases of occipital neuralgia represent a root entrapment syndrome amenable to neurosurgical decompression.
枕神经痛与创伤后颈椎关节炎的常见关联引发了一个问题，即某些枕神经痛病例是否是由于C - 2或C - 3神经根受压延迟所致。这一假设促使对一名患有创伤后关节炎性枕神经痛的年轻患者的C - 3和C - 2神经根进行手术探查。C - 3椎间孔和C - 2筋膜神经根减压术后异常的手术发现以及神经痛的缓解，初步提出某些枕神经痛病例代表一种适合神经外科减压的神经根受压综合征。
