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Treating Tic Douloureux Pain

Published on Tue Mar 22, 2016

Question: An established patient with a current diagnosis of tic douloureux reports to the practice for an office visit. During the encounter, the patient describes severe facial pain lasting the past six days. He rates the pain as 9 on a scale of 10. The physician identifies the source of the pain and performs destruction of the supraorbital trigeminal nerve using [...]
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