Trigeminal neuralgia is caused by maxillary and mandibular nerve entrapment: Greater incidence of right-sided facial symptoms is due to the foramen rotundum and foramen ovale being narrower on the right side of the cranium

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1179-1182

  Neto, Humberto Santo ^a   Camilli, José Angelo ^a   Marques, Maria Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; DEMOGRAPHY; DORSAL ROOT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVALUATION; FACE; FACE DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MAXILLARY NERVE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; SYMPTOM; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

CAUSALITY; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMORBIDITY; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MAXILLARY NERVE; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKULL; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 26444548569     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.06.012     Document Type: Article

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