MRIMS Journal of Health Sciences, 2021 Background: There is no clarity in diagnostic criteria of trigeminal neuralgia, and hence, the diagnosis is difficult and often delayed. Therefore, the patient has to visit many clinics before the final and correct diagnosis is established.
Rajesh R Raykar, Sibhi Ganapathy
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Spontaneous Carotid Artery Dissection Presenting as Trigeminal Neuralgia in the Emergency Department [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction: Carotid artery dissection (CAD) is a critical diagnosis in the emergency department (ED). Trigeminal neuralgia, while not uncommon, may cause the patient significant discomfort but generally is not attributed to severe morbidity and ...
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Evidence of descending inhibition deficits in atypical but not classical trigeminal neuralgia [PDF]
, 2009 : Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a rare neuropathic facial pain disorder. Two forms of TN, classical TN (CTN) and atypical TN (ATN), are reported and probably have different aetiologies. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the functional integrity
Blanchard, Jocelyn +4 more
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Evaluation of Sleep Quality, Depression and Anxiety Levels in Trigeminal Neuralgia Patients
Türk Uyku Tıbbı Dergisi, 2018 Objective: Trigeminal neuralgia is one of the most common causes of chronic neuropathic facial pain. Psychiatric and psychosocial disorders such as especially depression, anxiety disorder and sleep disorders are more frequent in patients with trigeminal ...
Ahmet Taylan Çebi
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BMC Family Practice, 2008 Background Between 1992 and 2001 the UK general practice incidence of post-herpetic neuralgia and trigeminal neuralgia declined, whilst the incidence of painful diabetic neuropathy increased. The most common first line treatments were compound analgesics.
Carroll Dawn +2 more
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Kolmiknärvineuralgiaga patsientide operatsioonijärgse elukvaliteedi muutuse hindamine [PDF]
, 2017 Taust ja eesmärgid. Kolmiknärvineuralgia on väga tugevat valu põhjustav ja elukvaliteeti halvendav haigus. Uurisime võrdlevalt selle raviks kasutatava mikrovaskulaarse dekompressiooni (MVD) ja kolmiknärvi ganglioni glütserooliblokaadi (GB) tõhusust ning ...
Asser, Andres +4 more
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Anosmia and Ageusia as the Only Indicators of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) [PDF]
, 2020 The patient is a 60-year-old woman with a history of vertigo and seasonal allergies who presented to the hospital with the chief complaint of headache. Radiological findings were negative for intracranial abnormalities. The headache was due to trigeminal
Abdollahi, Shahrzad +3 more
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Preliminary results of 45 patients with trigeminal neuralgia treated with radiosurgery compared to hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy, using a dedicated linear accelerator. [PDF]
, 2012 Radiosurgery (RS) and hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (HSRT) were performed in 23 and 22 patients respectively for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. RS and HSRT were performed with a dedicated linear accelerator (LINAC): an invasive frame
Fraioli, C +4 more
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Grading the intensity of nondental orofacial pain: Identification of cutoff points for mild, moderate, and severe pain [PDF]
, 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
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Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2020 We report a very rare case in which a patient believed to have auriculotemporal neuralgia due to the repeated recurrence of paroxysmal stabbing pain in the preauricular temporal region for four years developed occipital neuralgia, which finally improved ...
Byung-chul Son
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