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Atypical Facial Pain: A Reappraisal
Author(s) -
Reik Louis
Publication year - 1985
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.1526-4610.1985.hed2501030.x
Subject(s) - psychogenic disease , migraine , facial pain , medicine , psychology , psychiatry , surgery
SYNOPSIS Atypical facial pain is a syndrome of chronic facial pain affecting mainly young women who are often emotionally disturbed. Current opinion favors a psychogenic cause for it, but no causal relationship has been established: not all those affected are emotionally disturbed and no single psychiatric disorder predominates among those who are. Early reports of the syndrome in fact described a migraine‐like disorder in which either episodic facial pain or episodic exacerbations of chronic pain were associated with arterial tenderness, a variety of autonomic symptoms and signs and sometimes a response to treatment with vasoconstrictors. Painful dilation of craniofacial arteries may cause atypical facial pain.