Trigeminal neuralgia in children and adolescents: Experience of a tertiary pediatric headache clinic.

CONCLUSION: Trigeminal neuralgia accounted for only a small proportion of patients seeking treatment for headache in pediatric headache clinic over a 5-year period. Unlike findings in adults, vascular compression was not the underlying mechanism in any of our patients. The response to pharmacologic treatment was poor. Nerve block may serve as an alternative when pharmacologic treatment fails. PMID: 33231296 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Headache - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Headache Source Type: research