Glosofaringian nerve neuralgia

Glosofaringian nerve neuralgia Glosofaringiana neuralgia is rare and is similar to trigeminal neuralgia. It usually meets in women over 40 years.
It is manifested by paroxysmal pain intensity and located at the base of the tongue. Radiating pain in the neck and around the tonsillar fossa. Sometimes the pain radiates to the ear and the tympanic branch of glosofaringianului or damage may occur from the very beginning in the ear.
Glosofaringian nerve neuralgia
Painful crises are usually manifested unilateral tonsillar region, lateral and posterior pharyngeal with radiation to the ear to jaw. Pain is triggered by swallowing and chewing. And here you lost the feeling of bitter return meets V-lingual site. There may be triggered by swallowing and painful spasms.
These symptoms are sometimes accompanies cardiac events as bradycardia, hypotension, syncope.
Causes
In case of posterior fossa tumors or aneurysms in the hole or may be a broken rear glosofaringiana neuropathy associated with paralysis of the vagus nerve and accessory nerve. In this case, besides the symptoms described above, is also met with vocal cord paralysis and hoarseness, difficulty in swallowing, deviation of the healthy soft palate, pharynx and posterior wall hypoesthesia cerebral regions sternocleidomastoid and upper trapezius muscle. Herpes virus infection might affect nerve IX.
Treatment Glosofaringian nerve neuralgia
Consists of recommended medications carbamazepine and phenytoin. If conservative treatment does not give the desired results, the ultimate solution is surgery. This involves cutting the nerve near the bulb glosofaringian oblongata. Percutaneous Rizotomia glosofaringiene and vagal fibers broken back in the hole is able to relieve pain in some patients.