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Facial Pain

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Pain Management and Palliative Care

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Abstract

Despite a broad array of training backgrounds and clinical approaches to the evaluation of a patient with facial pain, all clinicians should have a firm knowledge base of the overlapping anatomical structures of the face to aid in clinical diagnosis and management. Matching affected anatomic structures to the clinical presentation aid in diagnosis; however, anatomic localization of facial pain is oftentimes not obvious. Therefore, having a strong basic clinical evaluation will help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. This chapter incorporates clinical guidelines into a systematic and efficient approach towards the diagnosis and management of facial pain.

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Abbreviations

AKA:

Also known as

CBC:

Complete blood count

CT:

Computed tomography

DIC:

Disseminated intravascular coagulation

GN:

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia

HFS:

Hemifacial spasm

ICHD:

International Classification of Headache Disorders

LFT:

Liver function test

MC:

Myoclonus

MSK:

Musculoskeletal

MRI:

Magnetic resonance imaging

PHN:

Post-herpetic neuralgia

SIADH:

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone

ST:

Spasmodic torticollis

TENS:

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

TN:

Trigeminal neuralgia

W:

With

W/O:

Without

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, One Gustave Levy Place, 1420, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Kathy Aligene M.D.

  2. Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, KCC 8th Floor, 1010, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Kathy Aligene M.D. & Yury Khelemsky M.D.

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Marc S. Lener M.D.

  4. The Mount Sinai Hospital, Rehabilitation Medicine, 1425 Madison Avenue Box 1420, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    David Spinner D.O.

  5. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA, USA

    David Spinner D.O.

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Aligene, K., Lener, M.S., Spinner, D., Khelemsky, Y. (2015). Facial Pain. In: Sackheim, K. (eds) Pain Management and Palliative Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2462-2_17

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