Trigeminal Neuralgia in an HIV Patient

Trigeminal neuralgia is a painful condition affecting face. Its commonest cause is the tortuous vessels in prepontine cistern. There are other causes also, like brainstem lesions and mass lesions, as well as inflammatory causes. We present a case of an HIV patient with marked involvement of trigemin...

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Autores principales: Hashmi, Mohammad A, Guha, Gautam, Saha, Bibhuti
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Pictorial Education
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300421
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.59254
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description Trigeminal neuralgia is a painful condition affecting face. Its commonest cause is the tortuous vessels in prepontine cistern. There are other causes also, like brainstem lesions and mass lesions, as well as inflammatory causes. We present a case of an HIV patient with marked involvement of trigeminal nerves, which is a unique finding in immunocompromised patients.
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spelling pubmed-28409732010-03-18 Trigeminal Neuralgia in an HIV Patient Hashmi, Mohammad A Guha, Gautam Saha, Bibhuti J Glob Infect Dis Pictorial Education Trigeminal neuralgia is a painful condition affecting face. Its commonest cause is the tortuous vessels in prepontine cistern. There are other causes also, like brainstem lesions and mass lesions, as well as inflammatory causes. We present a case of an HIV patient with marked involvement of trigeminal nerves, which is a unique finding in immunocompromised patients. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2840973/ /pubmed/20300421 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.59254 Text en © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hashmi, Mohammad A
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Trigeminal Neuralgia in an HIV Patient
title Trigeminal Neuralgia in an HIV Patient
title_full Trigeminal Neuralgia in an HIV Patient
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title_full_unstemmed Trigeminal Neuralgia in an HIV Patient
title_short Trigeminal Neuralgia in an HIV Patient
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topic Pictorial Education
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300421
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.59254
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