title: Wallenberg's syndrome and symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Universidad Complutense, Profesor Martín Lagos s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain. ordas.carlos@gmail.com
authors.forename: Carlos M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Ordás
authors.forename: María L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Cuadrado
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simal
authors.forename: Raúl
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barahona
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Casas
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matías-Guiu Antem
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Porta-Etessam
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D014854:Lateral Medullary Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology