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Treatment of Atypical Facial Pain with Stellate Ganglion Block  

Jeon, Young Hoon (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kyungpook National University, School of Dentistry)
Kim, Ji Hyun (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine)
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Journal of The Korean Dental Society of Anesthesiology / v.14, no.3, 2014 , pp. 173-175 More about this Journal
Abstract
Atypical facial pain is loosely used term to describe some chronic facial pain when the symptoms do not exactly and entirely fit one diagnostic criteria. In many cases of pain disorders, sympathetic system is involved, such as in conditions which symptoms mimic post-herpetic neuralgia or complex regional pain syndrome. We report a case of a patient with atypical facial pain following the reduction of temporomanidbular joint dislocation. The atypical pain which was resistant to analgesic medication was successfully managed with stellate ganglion block. Therefore we suggest that stellate ganglion block can be an effective treatment method for controlling atypical facial pain.
Keywords
Atypical facial pain; stellate ganglion block; temporomandibular joint dislocation;
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