Epidemiology of typical and atypical craniofacial neuralgias.
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) has a prevalence of 0.1-0.2 per thousand and an incidence ranging from about 4-5/100,000/year up to 20/100,000/year after age 60. The female-to-male ratio is about 3:2. A review of several case series shows that pain is more predominant on the right side, but the difference is not statistically significant. TN is significantly associated with arterial hypertension, Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy, glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GN) and multiple sclerosis. GN has an incidence of 0.7/100,000/year and epidemiological studies have shown it to be less severe than previously thought. Post-herpetic neuralgia has a comparable incidence to idiopathic TN. The epidemiology of the central causes of facial pain is still unclear, but it is known that persistent idiopathic facial pain is a widespread, not easily manageable problem.
Manzoni
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Headache Centre, Section of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Viale Gramsci 14, I-43100, Parma, Italy. giancamillo.manzoni@unipr.it
Torelli
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D000367:Age Factors; D002607:Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D020435:Glossopharyngeal Nerve Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*