[Therapy and prophylaxis of facial neuralgias and other forms of facial pain syndromes -- revised recommendations of the German Society of Migraine and Headache]. / Therapie und Prophylaxe von Gesichtsneuralgien und anderen Formen der Gesichtsschmerzen -- Uberarbeitete Empfehlungen der Deutschen Migräne- und Kopfschmerzgesellschaft.
Schmerz
; 17(1): 74-91, 2003 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
Trigeminal neuralgia and postherpetic neuralgia are the most relevant neuralgiform facial pain syndromes. Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by lancinating intensive pain attacks of very short duration, triggered by external cues,whereas postherpetic neuralgia consists predominantly of long-lasting burning pain. Sodium channel blocking drugs are first choice in treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, operative procedures encompass microvascular decompression,thermocoagulation and percutaneous retrogasserian glycerol rhizotomy. In the acute stage postherpetic neuralgia is treated antivirally and analgesically, in the chronic stage by tricyclic antidepressive substances. Other pain syndromes described encompass the Tolosa-Hunt-syndrome, cervicogenic headache, craniomandibular dysfunction syndrome, atypical facial pain and rarer syndromes. Therapeutic recommendations are based on evidence based medicine criteria (EBM).
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Neuralgia Facial
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2003
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