Medical Terminology guide Chapter 8 A.Jaw pain 1. Diagnosis and Comments -Fracture mandible: -Dental abscess: Fever; localized pain: swelling and Tenderness -Acute maxillary sinusitis: Occurs about 2 days postextraction; Due to food matter within empty Socket -Osteomyelitis: Rare -Dental cyst -Ameloblastoma -Migraine: Pain in maxillary area in addition to Headache, visual eyes may be present disturbance. Watering of -Mydcardial infarction: Chest pain referred to left jaw -Temporal arteritis: Jaw claudication (pain on chewing); Associated with headache, Tenderness in temporal arter. -Temporomandibular joint disease: Most commone cause is TMJ Dysfunction syndrom, due to Malocclusion, ill-fitting dentures Or bruxism secondary to stress. Clicking present.Other causes of TMJ pain include rheumatoid Arthritis, osteoarthritis, and septic Arthritis -Trigerninal neuralgia: Stabbing intermittent pain Involving one or more division of the trigeminal never -Depression: Common. Present atypical facial pain.Bilateral/Shifting pain. No abnormality Noted. No restriction to Movement of jaw.Has other Complaints that reval Abnormality 1. Test and Reason -CBC & differential: HB/HCT and WBC for infective Process. -X-ray mandible: Fracture/dental cyst/Ameloblastoma -X-ray maxillary sinuses: Maxillary sinusitis -X-ray TM joint: TM joint pathology -MRI TM joint: TM joint pathology -EKG: Myocardial infraction -Rheumatoid factor: rheumatoid athritis -Cranial CT/MRI: Trigeminal neuralgia B.Neck pain or stiffnes Diagnosis -Meningitis -Pharyngeal -Tuberculosis -Whiplash injury -Fracture cervical spine -Spinal cord tumor -Subarachnoid heorrhage -Rheumatoid arthritis -Cervical spondylitid -Ankylosing spodylitis -Hysteria -Torticollis 2. Test and Reason -CBC: HB/HCT -WBC and differential: Infective process -X-ray cervical spine: Fracture, spondylitis -HLA B27: Ankylosing spondylitis -Rheumatoid factor: Rheumatiod arthritis -Cerbral angiography: Intracrania aneurysm -MRI: Spinal cord tumor

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