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Trigeminal neuralgia, or tic douloureux, is a severely painful condition of unknown cause that typically arises in otherwise healthy people in late middle age. The diagnosis can be made with confidence on purely clinical grounds because the symptoms are so characteristic of the disorder. The patient reports brief, stabbing pain or clusters of stabbing pains in the face or mouth that are restricted to one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve, most often the maxillary division. The pain varies from mild to intense and is often described as having a penetrating, knifelike or jabbing quality. Although brief and followed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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