title: Secondary trigeminal neuropathy and neuralgia resulting from pontine infarction.
abstract: Trigeminal neuropathy and neuralgia are most commonly caused by vascular compression. Only 9 cases of trigeminal neuropathy and neuralgia due to pontine infarction have been reported in medical literature. A 68-year-old man presented numbness and sharp pain on the right side of his face. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a wedge-shaped lesion without mass effect adjacent to the root entry zone of the right trigeminal nerve. This is a rare report on a case of pontine infarction causing secondary trigeminal neuropathy and neuralgia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: mkatsuno@nms.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Katsuno
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Teramoto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018712:Analgesics, Non-Narcotic / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001241:Aspirin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002220:Carbamazepine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D011149:Pons / Q000473:pathology*; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D020433:Trigeminal Nerve Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D018712:Analgesics, Non-Narcotic; D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D002220:Carbamazepine; D001241:Aspirin