Atypical facial pain: a retrospective study.
Among the most challenging patients seen for evaluation by a health care practitioner are those suffering from the atypical facial pain syndrome. They have almost inevitably been subjected to extensive treatment which either has had no effect on the symptoms or has aggravated them. This article reports a retrospective study of thirty-four randomly selected cases of atypical facial pain that have been seen by a multidisciplinary pain group.
D000328:Adult; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D059408:Pain Management; D011897:Random Allocation; D012189:Retrospective Studies