Facial Neuropathy

Question 1

It is pain caused by a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain

Answer 1

Allodynia

Question 2

Absence of pain in response to stimulation that would normally be painful

Answer 2

Analgesia

Question 3

Absence of all sensation

Answer 3

Anesthesia

Question 4

Pain cause by loss of sensory input into the central nervous system

Answer 4

Deafferentation pain

Question 5

Unpleasant abnormal sensation, whether spontaneous or evoked; includes paresthesia

Answer 5

Dysesthesia

Question 6

Increased sensitivity to noxious stimulation

Answer 6

Hyperalgesia

Question 7

Increased sensitivity to all stimulation, excluding special senses

Answer 7

Hyperesthesia

Question 8

Diminished sensitivity to noxious stimulation

Answer 8

Hypoalgesia

Question 9

Diminished sensitivity to all stimulation, excluding the special senses

Answer 9

Hypoesthesia

Question 10

Pain in the distribution of nerves

Answer 10

Neuralgia

Question 11

Disturbance of function or pathologic change in a nerve

Answer 11

Neuropathy

Question 12

Abnormal sensation, whether spontaneous or evoked

Answer 12

Paresthesia

Question 13

It has no axonal damage, no demyelination, No neuroma

Answer 13

Neurapraxia

Question 14

Nerve injury classifications: SEDDON

Answer 14

Neurapraxia
Axonotmesis
Neurotmesis

Question 15

More axonal damage, demyelination, possible neuroma

Answer 15

Axonotmesis

Question 16

Severe axonal damage, epineural discontinuity, neuroma formation

Answer 16

Neurotmesis

Question 17

Outcome is loss of sensation, rapid recovery (days to weeks) , no microneurosurgery

Answer 17

Neurapraxia

Question 18

Loss of sensation, slow incomplete recovery weeks to months), possible microneurosurgery

Answer 18

Axonotmesis

Question 19

Loss of sensation, spontaneous recovery unlikely, microneurosurgery

Answer 19

Neurotmesis

Question 20

It is a disorganized mass of collagen fibers and randomly oriented small nerve fascicles

Answer 20

Neuroma

Question 21

It is a sharp, electric-like pain that last for brief period of seconds to I minute or longer. This is usually unilateral

Answer 21

Trigeminal neuralgia

Question 22

Anticonvulsants for trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 22

Carbamazepine (400-1200)

Gabapentin (600-3200)

Question 23

It is a pain resulting from deafferentation which is pain that occurs when damage to the afferent pain transmission system has occured

Answer 23

Atypical odontalgia

Question 24

It occurs after the reactivation of virus which remained dormant in the ganglia of peripheral nerve

Answer 24

Postherpetic neuralgia

Question 25

Burning, aching, or shocklike pain

Answer 25

Postherpetic neuralgia

Question 26

Herpes zoster infection of the motor branches of facial nerve and auditory nerve

Answer 26

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

Question 27

Patients perceives a burning or aching sensation part of the oral cavity

Answer 27

Burning mouth syndrome

Question 28

Chronic headaches

Answer 28

Migraine
Tension-type headache
Cluster type headache