The symptom of unilateral facial pain as a non-metastatic presentation of lung cancer is rare. This report describes a patient in whom unilateral face pain preceded the diagnosis of lung cancer by 9 months. The neural mechanism of this syndrome is discussed and the literature reviewed.
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