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Rachel Sunico1, David Ho2

  • 1Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, UC Irvine Health, UC Irvine School of Medicine, 101 The City Drive South Building 53, Suite 311A, Orange, CA 92868, USA.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America
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Keywords:
Cranial neuropathyCraniofacial painFacial painGeniculate neuralgiaGlossopharyngeal neuralgiaOccipital neuralgiaTrigeminal neuralgia

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