title: Familial trigeminal neuralgia.
abstract: The authors present the cases of four brothers and sisters, two women and two men, who had trigeminal neuralgia, with the onset of pain occurring between the ages of 24 and 31 years. Three of them were treated surgically. A review of the literature reveals that familial trigeminal neuralgia is a very rare condition.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000601:surgery; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery