Peripheral painful traumatic trigeminal neuropathy: Clinical features in 91 cases and proposal of novel diagnostic criteria

Journal of Oral and Facial Pain and Headache

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-58

  Benoliel, Rafael ^a   Zadik, Yehuda ^a   Eliav, Eli ^b   Sharav, Yair ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b RUTGERS SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical odontalgia; Neuropathic pain; Persistent idiopathic facial pain; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPESTHESIA; INJURY; MALE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MAXILLARY NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; ORAL SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOOTH PULP DISEASE; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE INJURY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

COHORT STUDIES; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTAL PULP TEST; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIZZINESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERESTHESIA; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MAXILLARY NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE INJURIES; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 84859102076     PISSN: 23330384     EISSN: 23330376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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