V2 Trigeminal Referred Pain from Chronic Occipital Neuralgia Caused by Entrapment of the Greater Occipital Nerve
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Hemifacial Pain and Hemisensory Disturbance Referred from Occipital Neuralgia Caused by Pathological Vascular Contact of the Greater Occipital Nerve
Here we report a unique case of chronic occipital neuralgia caused by pathological vascular contact of the left greater occipital nerve. After 12 months of left-sided, unremitting occipital neuralgia, a hypesthesia and facial pain developed in the left hemiface. The decompression of the left greater occipital nerve from pathological contacts with the occipital artery resulted in immediate relie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Neurosurgery
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2277-954X,2277-9167
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1676662