Messina Christian
Department "G. F. Ingrassia" Section of Neuroscience, University of Catania, Catania, ITA.
Cureus. 2025 Mar 15;17(3):e80639. doi: 10.7759/cureus.80639. eCollection 2025 Mar.
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. There are different types of pain. Neuropathic pain is caused by a lesion or pathological condition of the somatosensory nervous system. One of the most well-known neuropathic pains is trigeminal neuralgia (TN). However, occipital neuralgia (ON) and glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) exist. These three rare pathologies occur in a very small part of the global population. Combined hyperactive dysfunction syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by overactivity in different cranial nerves, TN, hemifacial spasm, and GPN. In this paper, we present a very rare case of a young woman affected by an association of overactivity in the trigeminal, occipital, and glossopharyngeal nerves, leading to TN, ON, and GPN simultaneously.
疼痛是一种与实际的或潜在的组织损伤相关的不愉快的感觉和情感体验。疼痛有不同类型。神经性疼痛由躯体感觉神经系统的损伤或病理状况引起。最著名的神经性疼痛之一是三叉神经痛（TN）。然而，枕神经痛（ON）和舌咽神经痛（GPN）也存在。这三种罕见病症在全球人口中发生的比例非常小。联合性功能亢进综合征是一种罕见的疾病，其特征是不同颅神经功能亢进、三叉神经痛、面肌痉挛和舌咽神经痛。在本文中，我们报告了一例非常罕见的年轻女性病例，她同时患有三叉神经、枕神经和舌咽神经功能亢进，导致同时出现三叉神经痛、枕神经痛和舌咽神经痛。
