Marcin Straburzyński, Adrian M Agius, Magdalena Boczarska-Jedynak, Eliza Brożek-Mądry, Karolina Dżaman, Elżbieta Gradek-Kwinta, Anna Gryglas-Dworak, Magdalena Nowaczewska, Anshul Sama, Joanna Smardz, Hoo Kee Tsang, Mieszko Więckiewicz, Marta Waliszewska-Prosół
Despite its inclusion in the International Classification of Orofacial Pain, tension-type orofacial pain has little support in the scientific literature. However, a similar-in-phenotype orofacial pain perceived in the middle segment of the face has been described by few case series from mostly ear, nose and throat clinics. The authors of these descriptions used the term 'midfacial segment pain'. Patients had no significant sinonasal disorder in these studies, but experienced symmetrical pain perceived mostly over the maxillary and ethmoid sinuses...
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