Anterior throat pain syndromes: causes for undiagnosed craniofacial pain. ABSTRACT: It is not uncommon for practitioners who treat craniofacial pain to see patients with undiagnosed throat and submandibular pain.
Usually, these patients will already have been seen by their primary care physician and frequently, several others doctors including otolaryngologists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, and even neurologists. Far too often these patients have three common features: 1. they have endured multiple expensive diagnostic tests; 2. they have received treatment of multiple courses of antibiotics; and 3. no specific diagnosis for their pain complaints has been determined and their pain persists.
In this article, five disorders, Ernest syndrome, Eagle's syndrome, carotid artery syndrome, hyoid bone syndrome and superior pharyngeal constrictor syndrome are briefly described. All five produce common symptoms, making diagnosis difficult, which is often followed by ineffective or no treatment being provided to the patient.
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By Maria Popova “Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator.
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