A Rare Case of Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia due to | 合法醫療器材資訊網

由MVecchi著作·2017·被引用1次—Theclinicalcasedescribedsatisfiestheclinicalandimagingdiagnosticcriteriaforneuralgiaoftheglossopharyngealnerve[1],acondition ...

An 83-year-old man presented to our institution for the assessment of 3 months of intense and piercing pain, which was of an intermittent and paroxysmal nature, with a duration varying from a few seconds to a maximum of about 1 min, of a daily frequency, localised in the deep laterocervical site behind the right jaw angle and the base of the homolateral tongue. The paroxysms were triggered and exacerbated by palpation localised at the root of the neck, by yawning, by tussive actions and by deglutition; they first occurred with solid food and then appeared with the swallowing of liquids, so as to have caused at anamnesis a weight loss of approximately 6–7 kg from the time the symptoms arose. These paroxysms tended to arise suddenly without prior notice and to regress spontaneously.

In the 3 months prior to our assessment, the patient had undergone various di...