trigeminal neuralgia-divided but not classified
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Trigeminal Neuralgia-Divided but Not Classified
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is “a sudden, usually unilateral, severe, brief, stabbing, recurrent pain in the distribution of one or more branches of the fifth cranial nerve” according to the international association for the study of pain (1). It is a debilitating condition of clinical importance not just because recent British and Dutch epidemiological studies show it to be more common than prev...
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anesthesiology and pain medicineجلد ۲، شماره ۲، صفحات ۱۰۱-۱۰۲
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