TY - JOUR
T1 - Trigeminal Neuralgia and Herpesvirus
AU - Tenser, Richard B.
AU - Wepsic, James G.
AU - Baringer, J. Richard
AU - Swoveland, Peggy
PY - 1973/6/7
Y1 - 1973/6/7
N2 - In his editorial entitled “Tic Douloureux: Etiology, refined treatment” (N Engl J Med 288:680–681, 1973) Wepsic apparently discards the possibility of a herpetic basis for trigeminal neuralgia but for what seems to be the wrong reason. He places emphasis on the absence of herpes virions in Gasserian ganglions of normal and tic-afflicted patients. However, by their procedures and results Baringer and Swoveland1 offer, in the same issue of the Journal, the probable reason for the negative findings of others: a period in vitro is necessary for the development of overt evidence of the virus in this.
AB - In his editorial entitled “Tic Douloureux: Etiology, refined treatment” (N Engl J Med 288:680–681, 1973) Wepsic apparently discards the possibility of a herpetic basis for trigeminal neuralgia but for what seems to be the wrong reason. He places emphasis on the absence of herpes virions in Gasserian ganglions of normal and tic-afflicted patients. However, by their procedures and results Baringer and Swoveland1 offer, in the same issue of the Journal, the probable reason for the negative findings of others: a period in vitro is necessary for the development of overt evidence of the virus in this.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197306072882318
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197306072882318
M3 - Letter
C2 - 4349505
AN - SCOPUS:0015916843
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 288
SP - 1243
EP - 1244
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 23
ER -