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Postgraduate medicine · Sep 2004
ReviewThree common neuralgias. How to manage trigeminal, occipital, and postherpetic pain.
- Avi Ashkenazi and Morris Levin.
- Jefferson Headache Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. avi.ashkenazi@mail.tju.edu
- Postgrad Med. 2004 Sep 1;116(3):16-8, 21-4, 31-2 passim.
AbstractThe pain experienced by patients with trigeminal, occipital, or postherpetic neuralgia is often severe, chronic, and difficult to treat. In this article, Drs Ashkenazi and Levin outline the pathologic mechanisms of pain in these common neuralgias and discuss individually tailored pharmacologic and surgical approaches to their treatment.
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