Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia: MVD vs GKS

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia.

CASE This 60-year-old woman presented with an 11-year history of severe throat pain recurring approximately every couple of years lasting for about 3 months. The current episode had been present for 5 weeks, the prior episode occurred over 1 year previously. She described an electrical pain with an intensity of 10 of 10 felt in the left throat around the tonsillar area sometimes shooting to the...

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia.

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a distinctive syndrome, named by Wilfred Harris. Investigation must exclude multiple sclerosis, and local compression, especially by tumours which require treatment. Dandy deserves credit for first indicating vascular compression of cranial nerve roots as a cause of cranial neuralgias, and Jannetta for establishing neurovascular decompression. Vascular compression ...

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia.

Nine cases of glossopharyngeal neuralgia have been seen in the last 5 years and are reported. They fall into 2 groups, namely otitic and oropharyngeal, according to the initial location of pain. The condition is probably more common than is recognised, largely because there are diagnostic difficulties with the otitic form where the pain radiates widely into the distribution of the trigeminal ne...

Glossopharyngeal and vagal neuralgia.

Tic douloureux involving the glossopharyngeal nerve is rare and when it does occur probably often involves the vagus nerve as well. Many cases are undoubtedly not recognized, and yet the condition responds favourably and permanently to intracranial section of the glossopharyngeal nerve and upper filaments of the vagus nerve. We therefore propose to review the literature, discuss our own experie...

Treatment options for glossopharyngeal neuralgia