Data set for demography, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of trigeminal neuralgia patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Pain is one of the most ignored clinical symptoms in resource limited country such as Ethiopia. Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is one of the most painful medical illnesses known to human. Very little was reported about TN from the sub Saharan Africa (SSA), especially from Ethiopia. We aimed to study the demographic, clinical characteristics, and risk factors of TN in sixty-one patients at two public and two private health facilities in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. These data will be vital to researchers and clinicians interested in knowing the pattern of TN in SSA in order to compare and contrast with similar data from the west.

Data description

The data set contains characteristics of TN patients. All the variables in the data set were coded by self-explanatory codes. The da

SUBMITTER: Ayele BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7787120 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature