"Facial Pain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Pain in the facial region including orofacial pain and craniofacial pain. Associated conditions include local inflammatory and neoplastic disorders and neuralgic syndromes involving the trigeminal, facial, and glossopharyngeal nerves. Conditions which feature recurrent or persistent facial pain as the primary manifestation of disease are referred to as FACIAL PAIN SYNDROMES.
| Descriptor ID |
D005157
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.592.612.330
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Facial Pain" by people in Profiles.
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Facial pain with recurrent facial palsy. Headache. 2003 Jun; 43(6):700-1.
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Referred pain after painful stimulation of the greater occipital nerve in humans: evidence of convergence of cervical afferences on trigeminal nuclei. Cephalalgia. 2001 Mar; 21(2):107-9.
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Pain as an atypical presentation of squamous cell carcinoma. Dermatol Surg. 1998 Feb; 24(2):263-6.