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IHS Diagnosis ICD-10
13.18.1 Anaesthesia dolorosa [G52.800] + [code to specify aetiology] G44.847  

Description:

Persistent and painful anaesthesia or hypaesthesia in the distribution of the trigeminal nerve or one of its divisions or of the occipital nerves.

Diagnostic criteria:

  1. Persistent pain and dysaesthesia within the area of distribution of one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve or of the occipital nerves
  2. Diminished sensation to pin-prick and sometimes other sensory loss over the affected area
  3. There is a lesion of the relevant nerve or its central connections

Comment:

Anaesthesia dolorosa is often related to surgical trauma of the occipital nerves or trigeminal ganglion, evoked most frequently after rhizotomy or thermocoagulation has been performed for treatment of 13.1.1 Classical trigeminal neuralgia.

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