Glosofaringiana neuralgia is rare and is similar to trigeminalneuralgia. 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 thetonsillar fossa. Sometimes the pain radiates to the ear and thetympanic branch of glosofaringianului or damage may occur from the very beginning in the ear.
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 triggeredby swallowing and painful spasms.
These symptoms are sometimes accompanies cardiac events asbradycardia, hypotension, syncope.
Causes
In case of posterior fossa tumors or aneurysms in the hole or may be a broken rear glosofaringiana neuropathy associated withparalysis 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 ofthe healthy soft palate, pharynx and posterior wall hypoesthesiacerebral regions sternocleidomastoid and upper trapezius muscle.Herpes virus infection might affect nerve IX.
Treatment
Consists of recommended medications carbamazepine and phenytoin. If conservative treatment does not give the desired results, the ultimate solution is surgery. This involves cutting thenerve near the bulb glosofaringian oblongata. PercutaneousRizotomia glosofaringiene and vagal fibers broken back in the holeis able to relieve pain in some patients.
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