ICD-11 classes
08 Diseases of the nervous system
Headache disorders
8A85 — Painful cranial neuropathies or other facial pains
8B82.0 — Trigeminal neuralgia
ICD-11 8B82.0 — Trigeminal neuralgia
Trigeminal neuralgia is a manifestation of orofacial neuropathic pain restricted to one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve. The pain is recurrent, abrupt in onset and termination, triggered by innocuous stimuli and typically compared to an electric shock or described as shooting or stabbing. Some patients experience continuous pain between these painful paroxysms.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere: