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OBJECTIVE
This study tests the validity of self-reported illicit substance use against biochemical testing among Emergency Department (ED) patients seeking treatment with narcotics for backache, headache, and toothache and to characterize patients who provide false reports.
METHODS
Retrospective
Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania is an intermittent head-pain problem that is characterized by pain paroxysms lasting about 15 minutes. The attacks usually produce pain in the frontotemporal region and are responsive to indomethacin. A set of symptoms that defines chronic paroxysmal hemicrania is
Benign cough headache (BCH) presents as an intermittent, usually bilateral, severe bursting or explosive pain brought on by coughing. Some of the known conditions which can mimic the pain experienced in BCH are subarachnoid hemorrhage, increased intracranial pressure, intracranial tumors, and even
BACKGROUND
The authors conducted a study of tweets posted on Twitter to compare self-reported toothache experiences with those of backache, earache and headache in regard to pain intensity, action taken, perceived cause and effect of pain.
METHODS
From a total of 508,591 relevant tweets collected on
Toothache of nonodontogenic origin may be better differentiated with the use of differential diagnostic blockade. Table 9 reviews the expected outcome of somatic block at the site of pain and when the nerve division or the site of nociception is blocked. Although there is considerable overlap, this
A 37-year-old gravida 5 para 4 with gestational hypertension underwent uneventful repeat cesarean delivery and tubal ligation under combined spinal-epidural anesthesia. On postoperative day 3, she developed a postural headache, unrelieved by caffeine, ibuprofen, and hydration. On postoperative day
The cause of atypical odontalgia has been related to many factors, including psychological ones. Animal experiments indicate that tooth pulp extirpation provokes a deafferentation, which may or may not induce pain, depending on unknown factors. The research described here showed that human tooth
Case reports in the literature discuss various headache disorders that present as pain in the face. The current understanding of neuroanatomy and headache mechanisms suggests that headache pain originates within intracranial structures and is then referred to the face, jaws, and teeth. This case
Temporal arteritis, the most common form of systemic vasculitis in adults, is a panarteritis that chiefly involves the extracranial branches of the carotid artery. The condition is illustrated in this article by the case of a 79-year-old woman with a dry cough, toothache, tongue infarction, and
Diagnosis of myocardial infarction or acute coronary syndrome is difficult, especially in atypical presentation at an emergency department, and sometimes results in serious legal issues. Symptoms of atypical presentation include shortness of breath, dyspnoea on exertion, toothache, abdominal pain,
OBJECTIVE
This study aimed (1) to investigate the differences in clinical characteristics of patients between 2 groups, those who have atypical odontalgia (AO) only and those who have AO with burning mouth syndrome (BMS), and (2) to assess the influence of psychiatric comorbidity factors on
The trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias are a group of rare, highly disabling, primary headache syndromes distinctly characterized by the unilaterality of their attacks and presence of cranial autonomic symptoms. Although pain is often localized to the peri-orbital and temporal regions, it is not
OBJECTIVE
In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, the effectiveness and tolerability of a novel intraoral benzocaine patch was evaluated in 60 patients who presented to the Dental School's emergency clinic with spontaneous toothache pain of at least a moderate
The relative severeness of toothache and two non-dental symptoms (headache, stomach complaints) was judged by men and women (n = 47). Each symptom was specified for two frequencies of occurrence (from time to time and regular) and two levels of intensity (minor and heavy). The methods used were