Superior Laryngeal Neuralgia

Abstract

This disorder has failed to achieve the status of general recognition among the cephalic neuralgias. Whether its orphanage derives from narrow-minded expulsion from the neurological domain of cephalic neuralgias to the ENT-field, or can be attributed to its rarity (though this did not keep glossopharyngeal neuralgia from rightfully assuming its place among equals), or to the hazy outlines of the disorder, remains a question more readily posed than answered. Yet, if it shares with Sluder's sphenopalatine neuralgia an uncertain clinical identity, there are a sufficient number of observable clinical data from which to conclude the reality of this neuralgia. A review of pertinent reports should enable the reader to make up his own mind.