Trigeminal neuralgia (TN), also known as tic douloureux, is a chronic neuropathic facial pain disorder characterized by spontaneous and elicited paroxysms of electric shock-like or stabbing pain in ...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic neuropathic pain disorder that is important to include in the differential diagnosis of head or facial pain. Trigeminal neuralgia ­­— also known as tic douloureux — ...