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9843068

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-12-23
pubmed:abstractText
Sensory complaints in the area of the mandible and mouth often escape notice or remain undiagnosed. Using electromyographic recording of the trigeminal reflexes and motor responses, we sought trigeminal dysfunction in 50 patients with peripheral neuropathy, and tried to gain pathophysiological information on the mechanisms provoking trigeminal damage. Trigeminal reflex recordings (early and late blink reflex after supraorbital stimulation, early and late masseter inhibitory reflex after mental stimulation, and jaw jerk) disclosed abnormalities caused by sensory trigeminal neuropathy in 8 out of 15 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), 13 out of 23 patients with severe diabetic polyneuropathy, and in none of 12 patients with mild diabetic polyneuropathy. Six patients had abnormal motor responses in facial or masseter muscles. The response affected most frequently was the masseter early inhibitory reflex (also called first silent period, SP1) after mental nerve stimulation, its latency being strongly delayed. We found these long delays not only in patients with CIDP, but also in diabetic patients with severe polyneuropathy. We conclude that peripheral polyneuropathies often cause subclinical damage to the trigeminal nerve, especially to its mandibular branch. We believe that the nerve fibers running along the alveolar-mandibular pathway are more exposed to damage because of their cramped anatomical route in the mandibular canal and below the internal pterygoid muscle and fascia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0148-639X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1673-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Mandibular nerve involvement in diabetic polyneuropathy and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento Scienze Neurologiche, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't