Glossopharyngeal neuralgia: a study of 6 cases

Ceylan S., Karakus A., Duru S., Baykal S., Koca O.

NEUROSURGICAL REVIEW, cilt.20, sa.3, ss.196-200, 1997 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 20 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 1997
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/bf01105564
  • Dergi Adı: NEUROSURGICAL REVIEW
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.196-200
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a rare disease. In this re port; six cases of glossopharyngeal neuralgia have been studied. At first, drug therapy was used in all of the 6 cases. In 2 of the 6 cases which were resistant to medical therapy intracranial section of the 9th nerve as well as the upper two rootlets of the 10th nerve were performed. This resolved the symptoms completely. One of these two cases, had, in addition to pain paroxyms, hypotension, bradycardia and syncope, which were controlled by temporary cardiac pacemaker.