THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF TRIFACIAL NEURALGIA
1914; American Medical Association; Volume: LXII; Issue: 20 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/jama.1914.02560450001001
ISSN2376-8118
Autores Tópico(s)Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research
ResumoIdentified as a morbid entity more than 120 years ago, 1 seen by almost every practicing physician, and known now as always by its clinical features alone, some misbeliefs concerning the symptomatology of trifacial neuralgia, tic douloureux, are more or less current. Hence the following brief review of the subject based on 220 personal cases, although only 200 have been tabulated for statistical purposes. So far as I have been able to ascertain, these were all cases of true trifacial neuralgia, typical tic doloureux, la grande névralgie of Lévy; 2 not migraine, not sinus disease, not herpes or other symptomatic pains about the face. For, as Head 3 says, "This is a definite disease of the nervous system"; as a German colleague put it, etwas für sich , something sui generis , not to be confused in nature or doings with anything else. In most of my cases the diagnosis was confirmed
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