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K. A. EKBOM, MD; C. E. WESTERBERG, MD

Arch Neurol. 1966;14(6):595-596.

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IN 1962 Blom^1,2 at our clinic discovered a new treatment for trigeminal neuralgia. Carbamazepine (Tegretol) [G-32883, 5H-& dibenz (b, f) azepine-5 carboxamide] made the pain disappear within 24 hours in 36 out of 40 cases. Several authors^4-10 have confirmed this experience. Spillane,⁷ writing on carbamazepine in trigeminal neuralgia, mentioned in passing, without details, that a patient with glossopharyngeal neuralgia improved.

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is much less common than trigeminal neuralgia. Over a period of 30 years, Bohm and Strang³ found only 18 cases in the neurosurgical department at the Serafimer Hospital in Stockholm. According to them, there was only one case of glossopharyngeal neuralgia for every 100 cases of trigeminal neuralgia. For this reason it is difficult to collect a large series. During the last five years we have treated four cases of glossopharyngeal neuralgia in Uppsala against 152 cases of trigeminal neuralgia.

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Author Affiliations
UPPSALA, SWEDEN

From the Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb 21, 1966; accepted March 5.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden (Dr. Ekbom).

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