Sluder neuralgia

The nerves of the upper jaw

Classification according to ICD-10
G44.8	Other specified headache syndromes
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Sluder neuralgia (also Sphenopalatinumsyndrom , English sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia , also Sluder's neuralgia and Sluder syndrome according to the US ENT doctor Greenfield Sluder ) is a 1908 proposed, meanwhile controversial explanatory model for certain facial neuralgia . Sluder believed that the pterygopalatine ganglion (formerly known as the sphenopalatine ganglion ), a parasympathetic nerve node under the base of the skull behind the palate, mediates reflex irritation of the immediately adjacent branches of the trigeminal nerve . He treated this neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the ganglion. In the current literature, sluder neuralgia is seen as a manifestation of cluster headache .

The Vidianusneuralgie (see nerve vidianus : pterygopalatine ganglion , named after Guido Guido, Vidus Vidius Latinized) was defined by Vail in 1932 as a recurring, one-sided pain to nose, eye, face, neck and shoulder in recurrent episodes. Vail himself considers vidian neuralgia to be a variant of sluder neuralgia. Neither the definition of sluder neuralgia nor that of vidian neuralgia. meets the criteria for cluster headache, although some of Sluder's and Vail's patients may have had cluster headaches.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alphabetical directory for the ICD-10-WHO version 2019, volume 3. German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI), Cologne, 2019, p. 629
2. ^ SH Ahamed, NS Jones: What is Sluder's neuralgia? In: Laryngology and Otology. 2003 Jun; 117 (6), pp. 437-443. PMID 12818050
3. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Guidi, Guido (Vidus Vidius). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 516.
4. ↑ HH Vail: Vidian neuralgia, with special reference to eye and orbital pain in suppuration of petrous apex. In: Ann Otolaryngol. , 1932, 41, pp. 837-856.
5. ^ H. Isler: Independent historical development of the concepts of cluster headache and trigeminal neuralgia. In: Functional neurology. 1987, 2 (2), pp. 141-148, PMID 3311902 .
6. ↑ Ottar Sjaastad: Cluster Headache Syndrome. WB Saunders, London 1992, ISBN 0-7020-1554-7 , pp. 6-18.

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