How do you manage patients with glossopharyngeal neuralgia?

What is your treatment approach for patients with glossopharyngeal neuralgia who are refractory to treatment with first-line AEDs? When do you send for the surgical referral? Is neurovascular contact sufficient, or is neurovascular compression needed?

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Glossopharyngeal neuralgia can be managed similar to trigeminal neuralgia (TN). It presents with pain like TN but located in the glossopharyngeal distribution (posterior part of the tongue, tonsillar fossa, pharynx, or angle of the lower jaw and/or in the ear). Note that neuralgia of the superior la...

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