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Low Vitamin B12 Syndrome in Trigeminal Neuralgia
| Arun Aggarwal1* and Irene Wood2 | |
| 1Neurologist and Pain Specialist, Pain Management Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia | |
| 2President, Founder, Trigeminal Neuralgia Association, Australia, Castle Hill, NSW, Australia | |
| Corresponding Author : | Arun Aggarwal Associate Professor Pain Management Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Camperdown, NSW, Australia Tel: +61-2- 9767-6416 Fax: +61-2-9817-6633 E-mail: arun.a@sydney.edu.au |
| Received April 10, 2012; Accepted June 21, 2012; Published June 25, 2012 | |
| Citation: Aggarwal A, Wood I (2012) Low Vitamin B12 Syndrome in Trigeminal Neuralgia. J Pain Relief 1:109. doi: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000109 | |
| Copyright: © 2012 Aggarwal A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
Trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux) is a disorder of the fifth cranial (trigeminal) nerve that causes episodes of intense, stabbing, electric shock-like pain in the areas of the face where the branches of the nerve are distributed - lips, eyes, nose, scalp, forehead, upper jaw, and lower jaw. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines trigeminal neuralgia as a sudden, usually unilateral, severe, brief, stabbing, recurrent pain in the distribution of one or more branches of the fifth cranial nerve. Typically, brief attacks of pain are triggered by talking, chewing, brushing teeth, and shaving, applying make-up or even a slight breeze. Generally, it is a clinical diagnosis, although imaging may be necessary to exclude other pathology.
