1. A 9-year-old boy with atypical retroauricular pain: a case report
- Author
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Marika Viccaro, Edoardo Covelli, Giuseppe Attanasio, Laura Cagnoni, Roberto Filipo, and Eleonora Masci
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lidocaine ,Cyclohexanecarboxylic Acids ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Injections ,Medicine ,Humans ,Amines ,Anesthetics, Local ,Child ,gamma-Aminobutyric Acid ,Analgesics ,business.industry ,Conventional treatment ,Trigger Points ,Nerve Block ,Surgery ,Clinical Practice ,Carbamazepine ,Otorhinolaryngology ,Anesthesia ,Earache ,Nerve block ,Gabapentin ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Idiopathic causes of retroauricular pain are rarely seen in clinical practice. We present a 9-year-old child who suffered from atypical retroauricular pain resistant to conventional treatment. After excluding any other cause of retroauricular pain, a nerve block was performed with a 0.3 ml lidocaine 1% injection into the trigger point. We believe that this case report is important because in the literature there are no similar cases described in children.
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- 2013