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Published in French in Tropical Dental Journal Volume 25 - September 2002 pages 15-18
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Authors : A. DJOUMESSI, E.M. MENDOMO EYA'ANE, J. ONANA, S. DJOUMESSI, Ph. NDOBO-EPOY - Cameroon
Si la névralgie faciale essentielle est une entité clinique bien connue quant à ses caractères son évolution et son traitement, sa physiopathologie est toujours controversée. La forme à évolution bilatérale que nous avons observée et que nous rapportons ici est extrêmement rare et sa physiopathologie encore plus discutée. Le cas de notre patient est d'autant plus complexe qu'à droite la topographie de la douleur est limitée au territoire sensitif d'une branche du tri-jumeau (maxillaire supérieur) alors qu'à gauche, elle est sur territoire du maxillaire inférieur. Dans l'état actuel de la bibliographie disponible, pareille évolution n'est pas décrite et nous avons profité pour énumérer les causes possibles d'erreur de diagnostic afin qu'on ne puisse pas étiqueter de névralgie faciale essentielle, une algie faciale de cause tumorale, vasculaire ou autre.
Despite the fact that essential facial neuralgia is a well known clinical entity as relates to its evolution and treatment, its physiopathology is still a controversial issue. The form with bilateral evolution that we observed and that we are reporting here is extremely rare and its physiopathology is even more controversial. The case of our patient is all the more complicated in that, the pain topography is limited to the right to a sensitive region of the trigeminal nerve (superior maxillary) and to the left to the region of the mandible (inferior maxillary) A similar disease evolution is not described so far in the present literature of the disease. We have therefore seized this opportunity to out line the possible causes of faulty diagnosis in order that essential facial neuralgia should not be labelled as facial pain of tumoral, vascular or other origin.
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