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Trigeminal Neuralgia, Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia, and Myofascial Pain Dysfunction Syndrome: An Update [PDF]

open access: yesPain Research and Management, 2017
Neuropathic pain is a common phenomenon that affects millions of people worldwide. Maxillofacial structures consist of various tissues that receive frequent stimulation during food digestion.
Mohammad Khan   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Trigeminal neuralgia: new classification and diagnostic grading for practice and research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is an exemplary condition of neuropathic facial pain. However, formally classifying TN as neuropathic pain based on the grading system of the International Association for the Study of Pain is complicated by the requirement of ...
CRUCCU, Giorgio   +8 more
core   +4 more sources

Cranial neuralgias: from physiopathology to pharmacological treatment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Cranial neuralgias are paroxysmal painful disorders of the head characterised by some shared features such as unilaterality of symptoms, transience and recurrence of attacks, superficial and "shock-like" quality of pain and the presence of triggering ...
BILO, LEONILDA   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Clinical insights on Tolosa Hunt syndrome: a multidisciplinary approach on neurological-related symptomatology in maxillofacial region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Background Tolosa–Hunt syndrome (THS) related neurological symptoms are described in literature as “unilateral”, “recurrent”, “episodic”, “intense”, “severe”, “lancinating” or “stabbing” pain on the upper face and forehead and may be misdiagnosed ...
Ahmed Siddiqui, Ammar   +8 more
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Grading the intensity of nondental orofacial pain: Identification of cutoff points for mild, moderate, and severe pain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: When assessing pain in clinical practice, clinicians often label pain as mild, moderate, and severe. However, these categories are not distinctly defined, and are often used arbitrarily.
Brailo, V, Zakrzewska, JM
core   +2 more sources

Assessing the painful, uninflamed eye in primary care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We acknowledge the important contributions of Professor Amada J Lee, University of Aberdeen, Division of Statistics, for assistance with analysing the data from the patient survey.
Dick, Andrew   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Nevralgia do trigémio.

open access: yesActa Médica Portuguesa, 1999
The lesion of the sensorial nerves of the face is expressed by painful phenomena called neuralgias of the brainstem or its branches. These may be idiopathic or essential and secondary or symptomatic and their clinical evidence and course are different ...
A J Brito
doaj   +1 more source

Triggering trigeminal neuralgia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introduction: Although it is widely accepted that facial pain paroxysms triggered by innocuous stimuli constitute a hallmark sign of trigeminal neuralgia, very few studies to date have systematically investigated the role of the triggers involved. In the
Cruccu, Giorgio   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Vertebrobasilar Dolichoectasia and Basilar Artery Dissection Presenting With Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Case Report

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2019
Trigeminal neuralgia secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia and basilar artery dissection is rare. The authors report the case of a 72-year-old man with a 5-year history of right electrical facial pain identical with trigeminal neuralgia.
Yuhan Wang, Wenchao Cheng, Yajun Lian
doaj   +1 more source

Trigeminal neuralgia - diagnosis and treatment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Introduction Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is characterized by touch-evoked unilateral brief shock-like paroxysmal pain in one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve. In addition to the paroxysmal pain, some patients also have continuous pain.
Bendtsen, Lars   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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