Referred facial pain associated with lung cancer: Case reports and phenotype-based management.

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BACKGROUND: Referred facial pain is a rare but important presentation of systemic disease. This paper describes orofacial pain associated with lung cancer, discusses key diagnostic considerations, and illustrates phenotype-based management. i. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: Two patients with known pulmonary malignancy developed unexplained orofacial pain. Case 1 involved a 37-year-old male with dull, intermittent pain in...

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