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Trigeminal neuralgia due to pontine infarction
Selcuk Peker1, Gur Akansel, Ibrahim Sun
1Marmara University Medical Faculty, Neurosurgery, Instanbul, Turkey.
Headache
|November 18, 2004
Abstract:
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.