Unilateral facial pain and lung cancer.
The symptom of unilateral facial pain as a non-metastatic presentation of lung cancer is rare. This report describes a patient in whom unilateral face pain preceded the diagnosis of lung cancer by 9 months. The neural mechanism of this syndrome is discussed and the literature reviewed.
Shakespeare
T P
TP
Department of Clinical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Stevens
M J
MJ
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000294:innervation; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology