NEURALGIAS OF THE GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE

1 November 1934

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Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry

Vol. 32 (5) , 1030-1037
https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1934.02250110118008

Abstract

Neuralgia of the ninth or glossopharyngeal nerve was described clearly by Weisenburg¹in 1910, but it was such a clinical rarity that when Dandy,²in 1927, reported two cases successfully and permanently cured by intracranial division of the nerve central to its ganglia, he was able to collect from the literature records of only eighteen other cases. Keith,³in 1932, added seventeen reported cases. Since, then Clinton and Ward,⁴Chavany and Welti,⁵Ball⁶and Reichert⁷have reported six more cases, making a total of forty-three cases recorded in the literature. The published reports of cases have led to a wider dissemination of knowledge concerning the characteristic symptoms of this rather rare tic douloureux. As a consequence recognition of it is becoming more frequent and more certain, so that a correct diagnosis and successful treatment may soon be expected in every case. Nearly all

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