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An unusual case of paroxysmal facial pain

✍ Scribed by C. Terrence; R. Costa; G. Fromm

Publisher
Springer
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
237 KB
Volume
221
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-5354

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✦ Synopsis

Paroxysmal facial pain is a rare sequel to brainstem infarction. This is a report of a patient who developed paroxysmal facial pain with the exceptional features of a trigger zone and relative refractory pain-free periods in an area previously anesthetic after infarction of the brainstem. The characteristic of this patient's pain is compared with the pain is compared with the pain of trigeminal neuralgia and possible similar pathogenetic mechanisms.

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