Which branch does glossopharyngeal neuralgia belong to?

summary

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a kind of paroxysmal pain that appears in the region of glossopharyngeal nerve. The nature of pain is similar to trigeminal neuralgia, which can be divided into primary and secondary. The pain occurred in one side of the tongue, throat, tonsil, ear root and the back of mandible, sometimes with the main manifestation of ear root pain. Male cases are more than female cases, usually after 40 years old. So the following specific introduction of glossopharyngeal neuralgia belongs to which department? I hope this problem can help some people.

Which branch does glossopharyngeal neuralgia belong to?

First, glossopharyngeal neuralgia belongs to the Department of Stomatology, which may be the result of "short circuit" between the afferent impulse of glossopharyngeal nerve and vagus nerve caused by nerve demyelination. Also seen in the jugular foramen area, skull base, nasopharyngeal, tonsil and other tumors, local arachnoiditis or aneurysms, these are called secondary glossopharyngeal neuralgia. In recent years, with the development of microvascular surgery, it is found that glossopharyngeal nerve is compressed by vertebral artery or posterior inferior cerebellar artery in some patients.

Second: other symptoms of swallowing often induce pain attacks. Although there is no abnormality in the intermission of attacks, patients are afraid to eat for fear of inducing pain. Patients often have symptoms such as weight loss, dehydration, throat spasm, arrhythmia and hypotension syncope.

Third: some tumors of cerebellopontine angle, arachnoiditis, vascular diseases, nasopharyngeal tumors or styloid process disease can irritate the glossopharyngeal nerve and cause pain of the glossopharyngeal nerve, which is called secondary.

matters needing attention

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