Central Pain Mimicking Trigeminal Neuralgia as a Result of Lateral Medullary Ischemic Stroke

BACKGROUND: Central pain mimicking trigeminal neuralgia (TN) as a result of lateral medullary infarction or Wallenberg syndrome has been rarely reported. CASE REPORT: We discuss a patient who presented with a lateral medullary infarct and shortly after developed facial pain mimicking TN. We also ela...

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Autores principales: Ravichandran, Abinayaa, Elsayed, Kareem S., Yacoub, Hussam A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31781437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4235724
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description BACKGROUND: Central pain mimicking trigeminal neuralgia (TN) as a result of lateral medullary infarction or Wallenberg syndrome has been rarely reported. CASE REPORT: We discuss a patient who presented with a lateral medullary infarct and shortly after developed facial pain mimicking TN. We also elaborate on the anatomical pathway of the trigeminal nerve explaining facial pain as a result of a lateral medullary lesion. DISCUSSION: Clinicians should be aware of this typical complication of lateral medullary infarct in order to attain proper management and work-up.
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spelling pubmed-68550402019-11-28 Central Pain Mimicking Trigeminal Neuralgia as a Result of Lateral Medullary Ischemic Stroke Ravichandran, Abinayaa Elsayed, Kareem S. Yacoub, Hussam A. Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Central pain mimicking trigeminal neuralgia (TN) as a result of lateral medullary infarction or Wallenberg syndrome has been rarely reported. CASE REPORT: We discuss a patient who presented with a lateral medullary infarct and shortly after developed facial pain mimicking TN. We also elaborate on the anatomical pathway of the trigeminal nerve explaining facial pain as a result of a lateral medullary lesion. DISCUSSION: Clinicians should be aware of this typical complication of lateral medullary infarct in order to attain proper management and work-up. Hindawi 2019-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6855040/ /pubmed/31781437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4235724 Text en Copyright © 2019 Abinayaa Ravichandran et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31781437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4235724
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