Superior laryngeal neuralgia.
This disorder has failed to achieve the status of general recognition among the cephalic neuralgias. Whether its orphanage derives from narrow-minded expulsion from the neurological domain of cephalic neuralgias to the ENT-field, or can be attributed to its rarity (though this did not keep glossopharyngeal neuralgia from rightfully assuming its place among equals), or to the hazy outlines of the disorder, remains a question more readily posed than answered. Yet, if it shares with Sluder's sphenopalatine neuralgia an uncertain clinical identity, there are a sufficient number of observable clinical data from which to conclude the reality of this neuralgia. A review of pertinent reports should enable the reader to make up his own mind.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007823:Laryngeal Nerves; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology