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.

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**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.

Stichworte
otalgia; Jacobson’s nerve; tympanic nerve; glossopharyngeal nerve; tympanoscopy
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Zeitschriftentitel
Frontiers in Surgery
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11
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2296-875X
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Camurdan A, Kilgué A, Scholtz L-U, Todt I. Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media. Frontiers in Surgery. 2024;11.
Camurdan, A., Kilgué, A., Scholtz, L. - U., & Todt, I. (2024). Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media. Frontiers in Surgery, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2024.1341118
Camurdan, Aybige, Kilgué, Alexander, Scholtz, Lars-Uwe, and Todt, Ingo. 2024. “Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media”. Frontiers in Surgery 11.
Camurdan, A., Kilgué, A., Scholtz, L. - U., and Todt, I. (2024). Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media. Frontiers in Surgery 11.
Camurdan, A., et al., 2024. Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media. Frontiers in Surgery, 11.
A. Camurdan, et al., “Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media”, Frontiers in Surgery, vol. 11, 2024.
Camurdan, A., Kilgué, A., Scholtz, L.-U., Todt, I.: Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media. Frontiers in Surgery. 11, (2024).
Camurdan, Aybige, Kilgué, Alexander, Scholtz, Lars-Uwe, and Todt, Ingo. “Case Report: Inflamed Jacobson nerve: an uncommon cause of persisting otalgia after an acute otitis media”. Frontiers in Surgery 11 (2024).
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