glossopharyngeal neuralgia. Under the general heading of neuralgia are trigeminal neuralgia (TN), atypical trigeminal neuralgia (ATN), occipital neuralgia, glossopharyngeal...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN or TGN), also called Fothergill disease, tic douloureux, trifacial neuralgia, or suicide disease, is a long-term pain disorder...

Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is neuropathic pain that occurs due to damage to a peripheral nerve caused by the reactivation of the varicella zoster virus...

Occipital neuralgia (ON) is a painful condition affecting the posterior head in the distributions of the greater occipital nerve (GON), lesser occipital...

Atypical trigeminal neuralgia (ATN), or type 2 trigeminal neuralgia, is a form of trigeminal neuralgia, a disorder of the fifth cranial nerve. This form...

ciliary neuralgia, erythromelalgia of the head, Horton's headache, histaminic cephalalgia, petrosal neuralgia, sphenopalatine neuralgia, vidian neuralgia, Sluder's...

pain which can last for months or years, a condition called postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). In those with poor immune function the rash may occur widely. If...

Preherpetic neuralgia is a form of nerve pain (neuralgia) specifically associated with a Shingles (herpes zoster) viral infection. This nerve pain often...

Sciatica Other names Sciatic neuritis, sciatic neuralgia, lumbar radiculopathy, radicular leg pain Anterior view showing the sciatic nerve going down...

ganglionitis or geniculate neuralgia (GN), also called nervus intermedius neuralgia, Ramsay Hunt syndrome, or Hunt's neuralgia, is a rare disorder characterized...

Erythromelalgia or Mitchell's disease (after Silas Weir Mitchell) is a rare vascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower...

numbness, fecal incontinence and urinary incontinence. The term pudendal neuralgia (PN) is often used interchangeably with "pudendal nerve entrapment". This...

postherpetic neuralgia, and central pain. It is moderately effective: about 30–40% of those given gabapentin for diabetic neuropathy or postherpetic neuralgia have...

trigeminal neuralgia. Carbamazepine is the only medication that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. As...

"persistent facial pain that does not have the characteristics of the cranial neuralgias ... and is not attributed to another disorder." However, the term AFP...

Neuralgia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO) is a diagnosis whereby a putative jawbone cavitation causes chronic facial neuralgia; this is different...

surgery, diagnosing or treating chronic perineal pain (i.e. pudendal neuralgia), and other gynecologic procedures Overall, the procedure involves injecting...

midbrain, and other nearby structures. It is the cause of trigeminal neuralgia in some patients. The superior cerebellar artery arises near the end of...

Trigeminal neuralgia Glossopharyngeal neuralgia Nervus intermedius neuralgia Superior laryngeal neuralgia Nasociliary neuralgia Supraorbital neuralgia Other...

rash with blisters, and can be followed by chronic pain (postherpetic neuralgia), as well as other complications. Older people are more often affected...

adverse effects necessitating hospital admission, for instance trigeminal neuralgia can present as a severe crisis where the patient may have difficulty talking...

13 Trigeminal neuralgia Occipital neuralgia External compression headache Cold-stimulus headache Optic neuritis Postherpetic neuralgia Tolosa–Hunt syndrome...

neurosurgical procedure used to treat trigeminal neuralgia (along with other cranial nerve neuralgias), a pain syndrome characterized by severe episodes...

intraoral approach. The infraorbital nerve can be implicated in trigeminal neuralgia, where patients have severe orofacial pain. A fracture of the floor of...

treatment of pain associated with diabetic neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, and central neuropathic pain. A minority obtain substantial benefit,...

unsuitable lifestyle. The attacks often came with headaches, eye inflammation, neuralgia in the head, and rheumatic pains. A serious nervous disorder appeared...

such as the MS Hug, painful Lhermitte's phenomenon (16%) and Trigeminal Neuralgia (3%). These authors did not however find enough data to quantify the prevalence...

Oslo]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian). "Facial Neuralgia Resources". Trigeminal Neuralgia Resources / Facial Neuralgia Resources. Archived from the original on...

Gonzales GR (July 1992). "Postherpes simplex type 1 neuralgia simulating postherpetic neuralgia". J Pain Symptom Manage. 7 (5): 320–3. doi:10.1016/0885-3924(92)90065-p...

the trigeminal ganglion has been used in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.[citation needed] In rodents, the trigeminal ganglion is important as...