Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media
Camurdan A, Kilgué A, Scholtz L-U, Todt I (2024)
Frontiers in Surgery 11.
**Introduction**
Otalgia can have multiple causes. Mostly otalgia is caused by a tubal dysfunction or an acute middle ear infection. This case describes a patient with an inflammation of the Jacobson's nerve causing severe persistent otalgia after an acute otitis media. The patients complaints completely disappeared after neurolysis of the Jacobson's nerve.
**Case presentation**
We describe a case of a 21-year-old female caucasian patient with acute otitis media and persistent intractable otalgia. Infection was first successfully controlled by antibiotics. But the patient reported a persistent otalgia not responding to analgetics. We performed a CT scan, which exhibited a regular aerated middle ear finding, and a diagnostic tympanoscopy to examine the middle ear structures particularly the tympanic Jacobson's nerve as a possible cause for persistent pain. The following neurolysis of Jacobson's nerve under general anaesthesia led to a resolution of otalgia.
**Conclusion**
An inflamed tympanic Jacobson's nerve is a rare observation and a persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media not responding to conservative treatment can be treated by a neurolysis.
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