Wallenberg’s syndrome and symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia

[摘要] 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.

[发布日期] 2011-02-10

[关键词] Trigeminal neuralgia;Facial pain;Wallenberg’s syndrome;Lateral medullary infarction;Brainstem infarction