Diagnosis and Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia

Diagnosis and Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia

Movassaghi. R,MD Dept of Anesthesiology, Medical Faculty of Tabriz University

Anatomy of the Trigeminal Nerve

Trigeminal Neuralgia

?Intense , sharp, shock like pain in abrupt intense paroxysms ?Provocation by minimal stimulus ?Always unilateral ?Confined to the branches of the nerve ?Painless intervals ?Incidence;2.7-5/100.000 ?After the 4th-5th decade, ?women/men:3/2

Trigeminal Neuralgia

?Idiopathic ?Secondary

?brain tumours ?multiple sclerosis ?vascular compression ?arachnoiditis ?aneurism- a-v malformation

Causes of pain

?Intrinsic and extrinsic lesions ?arteriovenous malformations ?gross abnormalities of axons and their myelin sheaths

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