title: A Successful Treatment of Coexistent Trigeminal Neuralgia and Ipsilateral Superior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm.
abstract: A 71-year-old woman had presented to our clinic with the history of trigeminal neuralgia involving the second and third divisions on the right side. The magnetic resonance tomography angiography examination before operation revealed that the root of the right trigeminal nerve was compressed by the superior cerebellar artery (SCA) artery. During the operation, a fusiform aneurysm was visualized at the distal portion of the SCA. The symptoms of pain disappeared after the surgery of microvascular decompression and the wrapping of the SCA aneurysm. Trigeminal neuralgia coexisting with the aneurysm of the ipsilateral SCA is extremely rare, and it has not been reported before.
authors.affiliation: *First People's Hospital of Jining City, Jining †Department of Neurosurgery, The Affiliated Xu Zhou Hospital of Medical College of Southeast University, Xuzhou ‡The Cranial Nerve Disease Center of Shanghai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Chong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yong-Nan
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Hui-Sheng
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhong
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000601:surgery; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D061145:Microvascular Decompression Surgery / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000601:surgery*; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*