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Minimally Invasive Surgical Decompression of Occipital Nerves
Published on: September 13, 2024
Occipital neuralgia following thoracic herpes zoster: case report
Caner Feyzi Demir1, Yahya Akalın, Said Berilgen
1Department of Neurology, Fırat University,, Elazığ, Turkey. cfdemir@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Paroxysmal shooting or stabbing pain in the dermatomes of the nervus occipitalis major or nervus occipitalis minor is defined as occipital neuralgia. The initial cause of the neuralgia appears to be from inflammation, damage or irritation of these nerves. In this article, we present a patient with occipital neuralgia followed by thoracic herpes lesion.
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