(n.) A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
(2) Acyclovir was shown to limit herpes simplex reactivation in a controlled trial to prevent herpes labialis after surgical intervention for trigeminal neuralgia.
(3) Because of the inherent limitations of computed tomography in the visualization of posterior fossa structures, MR imaging should be considered the initial screening procedure in the assessment of patients with trigeminal neuralgia.
(4) Evaluation of data leads to the following conclusions: In case of neuralgia in the V1 and V2 divisions, corneal sensitivity may decrease without any clinical manifestation.
(5) In four of five patients with other forms of neuralgia, the procedure did not relieve pain; the fifth patient experienced significant relief from pain due to carcinoma of the mandible.
(6) The authors describe the neurosurgical techniques currently available for the treatment of essential trigeminal neuralgia refractory to the usual medical treatments.
(7) The risk of developing post-herpetic neuralgia is related to the degree of residual scarring.
(8) However, when the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve is affected, the ocular disease (ophthalmic zoster), although also usually mild and self-limited, may have severe complications (corneal scarring, glaucoma, iris atrophy, posterior synechiae, scleritis, motor disturbances, optic neuritis, retinitis, anterior segment necrosis, and phthisis bulbi and servere postherpetic neuralgia).
(9) 140 patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia are evaluated.
(10) The authors deal with the psychological and psychopathological implications connected with cervicobrachial neuralgia and low-back pain.
(11) This report evaluates the effect of meridian acupuncture treatment on trigeminal neuralgia.
(12) A patient with trigeminal neuralgia caused by a tortuous vertebrobasilar artery is reported.
(13) Trigeminal neuralgia is most commonly idiopathic, although it can be associated with multiple sclerosis.
(14) Percutaneous retrogasserian glycerol rhizolysis was ineffective in relieving atypical trigeminal neuralgia or atypical facial pain.
(15) Trigeminal neuralgia is best treated by microvascular decompression.
(16) The treatment of trigeminal neuralgia by the minor percutaneous invasive procedures of selective thermal rhizotomy, glycerol injection, and balloon compression in the middle cranial fossa are compared with the open operations of compression in the middle fossa and MVD in the posterior fossa.
(17) The treatment effect of myeglynol may be related to its capacity to decrease to normal the high concentration of formaldehyde in the blood serum of patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia.
(18) Two of 29 were postherpetic and 27 were idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia.
(19) Pain is more often lateralised on the left, except in the case of trigeminal neuralgia.
(20) Headache and trigeminal neuralgia also disappeared.
Neuralgic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.
Example Sentences:
(1) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(2) Eleven patients with brucellosis presented with neurological features closely simulating transient ischaemic attacks, cerebral infarction, acute confusional state, motor neuron disease, progressive multisystem degeneration, polyradiculoneuropathy, neuralgic amyotrophy, sciatica and cauda equina syndrome.
(3) Furthermore, painful neuralgic nerve branches may be severed.
(4) He has now told the Daily Telegraph: “I was not unwell – I have not had heart palpitations - but I was getting increasingly terrible pain in my shoulder, my back and so I was suffering from neuralgic pain.
(5) Neuralgic pain during or following herpes zoster infection is a common problem in pain therapy.
(6) One patient could not be satisfactority treated by surgery; in addition to a Brown phenomenon she had excyclorotation, especially in down-gaze, and paresis of the superior oblique muscle plus severe neuralgic pain in up-gaze.
(7) Direct destruction of the sensory ganglion or its root, by either surgical transection or injection of phenol, has been employed as preferred treatment for a variety of neuralgic pain syndromes.
(8) The familial cases constitute one or more aetioliogical subgroups, differing from neuralgic amyotrophy in the frequency of recurrences, the relative freedom from pain in the attacks, the frequency of nerve lesions outside the brachial plexus, and of hypotelorism.
(9) Neuralgic amyotrophy or brachial plexus neuralgia is a condition of uncertain etiology.
(10) He complained of severe neuralgic pain, marked paresis, and distinct sensory loss in the right leg.
(11) Thus unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis may be, at least in some cases, the localised expression of a more diffuse neuropathy, perhaps a peculiar form of neuralgic amyotrophy.
(12) Severe neuralgic pain in the distal part of the sole is referred to the corresponding two toes.
(13) Unilateral exophthalmos as well as frontal or orbital neuralgic pain with or without sensory disorders in the area of trigeminus-I are characteristic for the clinical picture in later stages, all symptoms characteristic for the syndrome of the apex orbitae, resp.
(14) The etiology was postulated to be either a direct injury secondary to intravenous catheter placement or an unusual presentation of neuralgic amyotrophy.
(15) A family with hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy of the brachial plexus throughout three generations is described.
(16) We report a case with a diaphragmatic paralysis still present more than 30 years after the onset of a bilateral and recurrent neuralgic amyotrophy.
(17) The typical occurrence of periods with remission of neuralgic paroxysms the author explains by his original theory of biorhythms neogenesis with the involvement of two antagonistic neural subsystems (nociceptive and antinociceptive system).
(18) Three cases are presented in which occult lymphoreticular malignant tumour spread to the spinal and cranial subarachnoid spaces inducing a problematic neurological illness characterised by poorly localised neuralgic pain, slowly progressive paresis and, in 2 patients, papilloedema with computed tomographic evidence of ventricular dilatation.
(19) The best response was seen in patients with neuralgic disorders and painful musculo skeletal syndromes affecting the cervico thoracic region.
(20) There is an important recognizable subgroup who may, as a consequence of involvement of the external nasal nerve in nasal injury, exhibit neuralgic pain after a latent interval.