title: A successful treatment of coexistent hemifacial spasm and trigeminal neuralgia caused by a huge cerebral arteriovenous malformation: a case report.
abstract: Regardless hemifacial spasm (HFS) or trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is commonly caused by an offending artery, 36 cases caused by an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) have been reported in the literature. However, the concurrent HFS and TN caused by AVM have never been reported so far. We reported a case of coexistent HFS-TN associated with a huge AVM, and the symptoms of both spasm and pain relieved gradually after endovascular embolization of the nidus. The etiology and pathogenesis as well as the treatment of this disorder are discussed and reviewed in the article.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Neurosurgery, XinHua Hospital/The Cranial, Nerve Disease Center of Shanghai, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Ning-Ning
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Dou
authors.forename: Xu-Ming
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Hua
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Shi-Ting
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D019569:Hemifacial Spasm / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult