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Trigeminal Neuralgia Due to Pontine Infarction
Author(s) -
Peker Selcuk,
Akansel Gur,
Sun Ibrahim,
Pamir Necmettin M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.4200_1.x
Subject(s) - trigeminal neuralgia , pons , medicine , trigeminal nerve , lesion , anesthesia , surgery , anatomy
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is most commonly caused by vascular compression of the trigeminal nerve root entry zone. Secondary trigeminal neuralgia due to ischemic lesion of the pons is very rare. Here we report a patient with a pontine infarct transecting the central trigeminal pathways resulting with trigeminal neuralgia.