IDIOPATHIC TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA AND ITS PHARMACOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT – A CASE REPORT AND SHORT REVIEW
Journal Title: World Journal of Pharmaceutical and life sciences - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 7
Abstract
Trigeminal neuralgia is a craniofacial pain which is also known as tic douloreux presents with multiple episodes of sharp, severe, lancinating, “electric shock - like” pain. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines classical idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) as “a sudden, usually unilateral, severe, brief, stabbing, recurrent pain in the distribution of one or more branches of the fifth cranial nerve.” Idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia is the most common type of facial pain neuralgia. The pain typically occurs in the distribution of one of the branches of the trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve V), usually unilaterally.
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Dr. B. Prakash vijayan
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