title: Trigeminal neuropathic pain following honeybee sting: a case report.
abstract: The neurological complications of bee venom poisoning vary from optic neuritis to pontine hematoma. However, to our best knowledge, trigeminal neuropathic pain secondary to bee sting has not been reported previously in the literature. We report the case of a 52-year-old male patient with right-sided trigeminal neuropathic pain that began a month earlier, following a honeybee sting to the right forehead. The patient was successfully treated by CT-guided percutaneous trigeminal tractotomy. The present report demonstrated that a honeybee sting may result in trigeminal neuropathic pain and CT-guided percutaneous trigeminal tractotomy is effective in the treatment of such cases.
authors.affiliation: Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara, Turkey. gokmenkahil@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Gokmen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kahilogullari
authors.forename: Hasan Caglar
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Ugur
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tatli
authors.forename: Yucel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kanpolat
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001514:Bee Venoms / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001516:Bees; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications*; D005546:Forehead; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D001514:Bee Venoms