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Tic Douloureux of the Ninth Cranial Nerve

PETER N. PASTORE, M.D; JOHN M. MEREDITH, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1949;50(6):789-794.

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TODAY, glossopharyngeal neuralgia is recognized as a major type of paroxysmal pain involving the distribution of the ninth cranial nerve. This has not always been so. For many years it was mistaken for trigeminal neuralgia, although the pain was not relieved by a partial or complete division of the posterior root of the gasserian ganglion.

The course of the glossopharyngeal nerve was described by Galen¹ and the nerve separated as a distinct entity by Fallopius, but the actual functions were unknown until recent years. In 1910, Weisenburg² described the symptoms of glossopharyngeal neuralgia due, in his case, to a tumor in the cerebellopontile angle pressing on the ninth nerve as shown at autopsy. Sicard and Robineau³ in 1920 described true glossopharyngeal neuralgia but were not certain of its purely ninth nerve origin. Doyle⁴ and Adson,⁵ of the Mayo Clinic, were the first to report cases . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
RICHMOND, VA.

From the Departments of Otolaryngology and of Neurological Surgery, Medical College of Virginia.

Footnotes
Read at the meeting of the Virginia Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, Winchester, Va., May 8, 1948.

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