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JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH
卷 50, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/03000605211047704
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Painful post-traumatic trigeminal neuropathy; botulinum toxin type A; facial pain; inferior alveolar nerve; buccal nerve; spinopetal transport
This article reports a case of painful post-traumatic trigeminal neuropathy and investigates the effectiveness of local injections of botulinum toxin type A. By administering BTX-A injections in the vicinity of the affected nerves, significant improvement in the patient's condition and quality of life was achieved.
Painful post-traumatic trigeminal neuropathy (PPTTN) can result from iatrogenic injury to one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve during oral surgical procedures such as tooth extractions. Like other chronic neuropathic pain conditions, PPTTN can significantly alter the patient's quality of life, especially when pharmacological treatment is ineffective or not tolerated. As such, new treatment options have been investigated, including local injections of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A). A 29-year-old woman presented to our tertiary orofacial pain clinic for evaluation of chronic electric shock-like pain attacks and severe allodynia in the territory of the right inferior alveolar nerve and buccal nerve following right mandibular third molar extraction 3 years prior. Following several failed attempts at classic pharmacological management (including carbamazepine, venlafaxine, duloxetine, pregabalin, clonazepam, and amitriptyline), BTX-A injections were administered in the vicinity of the right mental nerve. This treatment provided significant improvement in the patient's condition and overall quality of life with no significant adverse effects. Because both neuropathies were significantly improved by remote BTX-A injections, this case report provides preliminary clinical evidence supporting spinopetal transport of BTX-A, as shown in animal models, as an underlying pathophysiological mechanism of BTX-A-mediated analgesia.
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