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Post‐apopletic trigeminal trophic syndrome
Author(s) -
Ferrara G,
Argenziano G,
Cicarelli G,
Cusano F,
Delfino M
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of the european academy of dermatology and venereology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.655
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-3083
pISSN - 0926-9959
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2001.00146.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dermatome , trigeminal nerve , sequela , basal cell carcinoma , anesthesia , surgery , pathology , basal cell
Trigeminal trophic syndrome is an uncommon clinical entity in which cutaneous trophic ulceration develops with continuous manipulation of trigeminal dermatomes. Patients spontaneously refer picking, rubbing and/or scratching at the affected areas because of hypo‐anaesthesia, paraesthesia and/or pain following damage of the sensory trigeminal fibres or nuclei. We herein describe a patient who developed the syndrome as a sequela of brain stem infarction. Diagnosis by scrape cytology in ruling‐out basal cell carcinoma and other ulcerative skin diseases is discussed and the importance of neurological examination in disclosing hemi‐anaesthesia of trigeminal dermatome(s) is emphasized.