Authors : Harshita Gupta, Sumit Bhateja, Geetika Arora
DOI : 10.18231/j.ijpns.2019.005
Volume : 2
Issue : 4
Year : 2019
Page No : 112-115
Trigeminal Neuralgia is a nerve disorder of the 5th cranial nerve, i.e. Trigeminal nerve. It is one of the most painful disorders to plague humans since at least as far back as 1st century A. D. Even more than that trigeminal neuralgia does not have any visible signs or causes, so for a long time they went untreated. Now, with advanced imaging procedures such as MRI, it can be diagnosed and managed. The various diagnostic and management methods of Trigeminal Neuralgia are mentioned below.
Keywords: Trigeminal Neuralgia, Case Report, History, Classification, Diagnostic Grading, White and Sweet Criterion, Differential Diagnosis, Management.