User talk:Lawhern

August 2011
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Atypical trigeminal neuralgia
Hi, not sure if you are still active. I noted your work on the above article and related articles. I am trying to bring atypical facial pain to a suitable condition, and I have initially proposed that atypical trigeminal neuralgia be merged with the main TN page (see here to discuss Talk:Trigeminal_neuralgia). This is an incredibly complicated area, and you seem to have expertise, so I will ask you a few Qs if I may:


 * "trigeminal neuralgia type 2" and "atypical trigeminal neuralgia". Are they widely accepted way of classifying TN? I think this has come from the Burchiel classification, see here Atypical_facial_pain.
 * is Trigeminal neuralgia not more commonly/traditionally classified into primary and secondary TN ?
 * some sources use the above terms as synonyms for AFP. If these pages are intended to be about the same thing, we should merge the content one article...but I am not sure if the correct place is on AFP or a sub section of the main TN page. On wikipedia, we usually name the article by the most notable name. A crude measure of the most notable name is how frequently the terms crop up on a pubmed search. For "Atypical facial pain" this is 264, for "atypical trigeminal neuralgia" this is 52 and for variations of "trigeminal neuralgia type 2/II" etc there are no exact matches. Suggest if AFP = ATN then AFP is still a more notable name... Lesion  ( talk ) 21:09, 8 May 2013 (UTC)