Jaw claudication

Pain in the jaw while chewing

Medical condition

Jaw claudication
Differential diagnosis	giant cell artiritis

Jaw claudication is pain in the jaw associated with chewing. It is a classic symptom of giant-cell arteritis,^[1]^[2] but can be confused with symptoms of temporomandibular joint disease, rheumatoid arthritis of the temporomandibular joint, myasthenia gravis, tumors of the parotid gland, or occlusion or stenosis of the external carotid artery.^[3]

References

^ Jaw claudication is the only clinical predictor of giant-cell arteritis. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology, 29 (3): 264-269. Hitoshi Sato, Mariko Inoue, Wataru Muraoka, Takaaki Kamatani, Seiji Asoda, Hiromasa Kawana, Taneaki Nakagawa, Koichi Wajima. (May 2017) doi:10.1016/j.ajoms.201612002
^ Stone, John H. (2009). A Clinician's Pearls & Myths in Rheumatology. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 287. ISBN 9781848009349 . Retrieved 11 November 2017.
^ Goodman BW, Jr; Shepard, FA (February 1983). "Jaw claudication. Its value as a diagnostic clue". Postgraduate Medicine. 73 (2): 177–83. doi:10.1080/00325481.1983.11697764. PMID 6823455.

Inflammation	Arteritis Aortitis Buerger's disease
Arteriosclerosis	Atherosclerosis Foam cell Fatty streak Atheroma Cholesterol LDL Oxycholesterol Trans fat Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis Hyaline arteriolosclerosis Hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis
Peripheral artery disease	Stenosis Carotid artery stenosis Renal artery stenosis Aortoiliac occlusive disease Critical limb ischemia Degos disease Erythromelalgia Fibromuscular dysplasia Hepatic artery thrombosis Intermittent claudication Raynaud's phenomenon
Aneurysm / dissection / pseudoaneurysm	torso: Aortic aneurysm Abdominal aortic aneurysm Thoracic aortic aneurysm Aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva Aortic dissection Aortic rupture Coronary artery aneurysm head / neck: Intracranial aneurysm Intracranial berry aneurysm Carotid artery dissection Vertebral artery dissection Familial aortic dissection legs: Popliteal artery aneurysm
Vascular malformation	Arteriovenous fistula Arteriovenous malformation Telangiectasia Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia Generalized essential telangiectasia
Vascular nevus	Cherry hemangioma Halo nevus Spider angioma

Inflammation	Phlebitis
Venous thrombosis / Thrombophlebitis	primarily lower limb Deep vein thrombosis abdomen Hepatic veno-occlusive disease Budd–Chiari syndrome May–Thurner syndrome Portal vein thrombosis Renal vein thrombosis upper limb / torso Mondor's disease Paget–Schroetter disease Pulmonary embolism head Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis Post-thrombotic syndrome
Varicose veins	Gastric varices Portacaval anastomosis Caput medusae Esophageal varices Hemorrhoid Varicocele
Other	Chronic venous insufficiency Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency Superior vena cava syndrome Inferior vena cava syndrome Venous ulcer

Arteries or veins

Hypertension	Hypertensive heart disease Hypertensive emergency Hypertensive nephropathy Essential hypertension Secondary hypertension Renovascular hypertension Benign hypertension Pulmonary hypertension Systolic hypertension White coat hypertension
Hypotension	Orthostatic hypotension Shock (circulatory)

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