title: Atypical retroauricular pain: a case report.
abstract: Retroauricular pain is rarely seen in clinical practice. We present a 29-year-old man who suffered from an intractable and atypical retroauricular pain. The pain was refractory to medications (anticonvulsant drugs, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and amitriptyline). Therefore, a local anesthetic injection for nerve block was done, despite the fact that the causative nerve could not be identified. We believe that this case report is important as we could not find another patient reported in literature with regard to similar headache characteristics and treatment strategy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, 67700, Zonguldak, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ebru
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tas
authors.forename: Ufuk
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Emre
authors.forename: Aysun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Unal
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D020773:Headache Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome