(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.
Neuritis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of a nerve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(2) Thus, during treatment with ethambutol visually (pattern) evoked potentials may reveal a surprisingly high percentage of subclinical optic neuritis.
(3) Complications were minimal and included six wound infections, six episodes of thrombophlebitis and one case of saphenous neuritis; 35 patients had minor residual varices at 6 weeks of which 29 required injection sclerotherapy.
(4) The earliest reports were of peripheral neuritis, but later it was evident that an upper motor neuron syndrome had supervened.
(5) A study of colour vision (CV) in 65 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), (30 patients had had previous optic neuritis) and 51 controls was carried out with Ishihara's pseudoisochromatic plates (I-test), Farnsworth's panel D-15 test (F-test), and Lanthony's desaturated 15-hue test (L-test).
(6) In contrast, eyes with macular holes had a greater reduction in the steady-state VEP amplitude than eyes with optic neuritis.
(7) Cases of chorioretinitis and optic neuritis could be confidently diagnosed only by this technique.
(8) Nerve growth factor (NGF) treatment of PC12 cells induced a 2.8-fold increase in protein kinase C activity concomitant with differentiation and acquisition of neuritis.
(9) We studied 20 patients with acute optic neuritis prospectively for 12 months.
(10) The changes of T cell subsets and Ia-positive cells in the sciatic nerve during the course of experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) in Lewis rats were studied using immunohistochemical techniques.
(11) Pattern-reversal VERs were studied during the visual impairment provoked by exercise in 2 patients with demyelinating optic neuritis.
(12) Four cases of neuritis of the cauda equina (NCE) were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(13) The colour vision deficits were not restricted to patients with optic neuritis or with visual evoked potential (VEP) abnormalities and there was no significant correlation between an abnormal VEP latency and a colour vision deficit.
(14) Only one of the patients with optic neuritis and 3 of the chronic not diagnosed group had EPs demonstrating clinically silent lesions.
(15) The most frequent diagnoses were retrobulbar neuritis (34; 28.5%), sixth cranial nerve palsy (22; 18.5%), third cranial nerve palsy (15; 12.6%) and Adie's tonic pupil (11; 9%).
(16) Fourteen patients with symptoms of acute unilateral optic neuritis were examined with the Pulfrich test and the Aulhorn flicker test.
(17) 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).
(18) This method was used on 25 healthy controls and 25 subjects having a definite clinical or laboratory-supported diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, with or without a previous history of optic neuritis.
(19) Being more vulnerable to injury than normally-positioned nerves, however, complicating neuritis can does occur.
(20) Optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) was studied in ten patients with vestibular neuritis, and in seventeen patients with unilateral and thirteen patients with bilateral infratentorial lesions and compared with OKN in fifty healthy subjects.