Pain around the ear in Bell's palsy is referred pain of facial nerve origin: The role of nervi nervorum

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-236

  Han, Dong Gyun ^a  

^a DaeJeon HanKook Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CRANIAL NERVE; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FACIAL NERVE; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE SHEATH; NERVI NERVORUM; NOCICEPTION; OTALGIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERRED PAIN; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

BELL PALSY; EARACHE; FACIAL NERVE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PAIN;

EID: 72449197450     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.06.027     Document Type: Article

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