Wallenberg’s syndrome and symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia

Symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia due to a brainstem infarction is said to be rare. However, facial pain is not uncommon in Wallenberg’s syndrome. Facial pain related to a Wallenberg’s syndrome may be either persistent of intermittent, and occasionally occurs in brief attacks. Here, we report a patie...

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Autores principales: Ordás, Carlos M., Cuadrado, María L., Simal, Patricia, Barahona, Raúl, Casas, Javier, Matías-Guiu Antem, Jordi, Porta-Etessam, Jesús
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Milan 2011
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21308475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10194-011-0305-9
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Sumario:Symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia due to a brainstem infarction is said to be rare. However, facial pain is not uncommon in Wallenberg’s syndrome. Facial pain related to a Wallenberg’s syndrome may be either persistent of intermittent, and occasionally occurs in brief attacks. Here, we report a patient with a right lateral medullary infarction who started having first division trigeminal neuralgia 1 month after the stroke. The pain paroxysms were suppressed with gabapentin.

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