Occipital Neuralgia after Hair Transplantation and Its Treatment

While undergoing full thickness tissue harvest from the posterior scalp, a 72-year-old man experienced immediate severe pain in the right occiput and was unable to complete the procedure. The pain was constant “sharp” and “shocking” with numbness in the distribution of the lesser occipital nerve, ex...

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Autores principales: Siefferman, Jason, Khelemsky, Yury
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25688308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/428413
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description While undergoing full thickness tissue harvest from the posterior scalp, a 72-year-old man experienced immediate severe pain in the right occiput and was unable to complete the procedure. The pain was constant “sharp” and “shocking” with numbness in the distribution of the lesser occipital nerve, exacerbated by physical activity, and local anesthetic blocks provided temporary complete relief. After numerous treatments over several years, including oral analgesics, botulinum toxin injections, and acupuncture, proved ineffective, pulsed radiofrequency neuromodulation provided greater than 80% relief for 5 months.
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spelling pubmed-43210792015-02-16 Occipital Neuralgia after Hair Transplantation and Its Treatment Siefferman, Jason Khelemsky, Yury Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report While undergoing full thickness tissue harvest from the posterior scalp, a 72-year-old man experienced immediate severe pain in the right occiput and was unable to complete the procedure. The pain was constant “sharp” and “shocking” with numbness in the distribution of the lesser occipital nerve, exacerbated by physical activity, and local anesthetic blocks provided temporary complete relief. After numerous treatments over several years, including oral analgesics, botulinum toxin injections, and acupuncture, proved ineffective, pulsed radiofrequency neuromodulation provided greater than 80% relief for 5 months. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4321079/ /pubmed/25688308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/428413 Text en Copyright © 2015 J. Siefferman and Y. Khelemsky. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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