Late-onset jaw and teeth pain mimicking trigeminal neuralgia associated with chronic vagal nerve stimulation: case series and review of the literature

Table 1 Characteristics of late-onset trigeminal pain under VNS in reported patients

Author	Type of disease	Time to pain onset from implantation	Time to pain onset from last augmentation	SC	Pain localisation
Author	Type of disease	Time to pain onset from implantation	Time to pain onset from last augmentation	(mA)	Pain localisation
Shih [35]	Epilepsy-Tuberous sclerosis	9 months	2 months	1.25^a	Left cheek, mentally retarded child with unprecise description of the pain
Carius and Schulze-Bonhage [34]	Cryptogenic epilepsy, focal seizures	5 months	few days	1.5^a	The lower jaw, left
	Epilepsy-right frontotemporal	2 months	1 month	0.5^a	The lower jaw and occipital headache, left
	Epilepsy- bitemporal	11 months	2 weeks	1.75^a	The lower jaw and throat, left

SC stimulation current intensity at the time of pain onset
^a In all patients was stimulation frequency 30 Hz, pulse width 500usec, duty cycle 30s on and 5 min off

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