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Facial Pain Associated With Lung Cancer: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Prez Roger D. Des,
Freemon Frank R.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1983.hed2301043.x
Subject(s) - medicine , refractory (planetary science) , lung cancer , facial pain , surgery , resection , cancer , facial nerve , anesthesia , pathology , physics , astrobiology
SYNOPSIS We report a patient with severe and refractory facial pain which was dramatically relieved following resection of a bronchogenic carcinoma. We hypothesize that the pain was referred via the vagus nerve.