title: Burning oral and mid-facial pain in ventral pontine infarction.
abstract: The symptom of burning orofacial pain may help to identify the site of ischaemia in otherwise pure motor strokes resulting from infarction of the ventral pons. A patient with hemiplegia due to ventral pontine infarction, in whom burning oral and mid-facial pain was a prominent initial symptom, is described. Similar pain preceded transient episodes of the 'locked-in' state. Awareness of this herald symptom may permit early recognition and careful monitoring of patients at risk of progressing to the 'locked-in' state.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Reutens
mesh_terms: D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009055:Mouth; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D010292:Paresthesia / Q000209:etiology*; D011149:Pons / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed