Trigeminal-mediated headshaking is an idiopathic neuropathic facial pain syndrome in horses. There are clinical similarities to trigeminal neuralgia, a neuropathic facial pain syndrome in man, which is usually caused by demyelination of trigeminal sensory fibers within either the nerve root or, less commonly, the brainstem. Our hypothesis was that the neuropathological substrate of headshaking ...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a disorder of the fifth cranial nerve. We report an unusual case of trigeminal neuralgia affecting right side of face presenting atypical features of neuralgia and not responding to the usual course of treatment. A large extra-axial mass involving right cerebellopontine angle .The aim of this case report is to show a tumor of cerebellopontine angle, presenting clinically...

BACKGROUND Trigeminal neuralgia may be idiopathic or secondary to a number of cranial pathologies. We report a novel case of trigeminal neuralgia associated with Dandy-Walker malformation, which may be an etiologic factor. CASE DESCRIPTION A 32-year-old male presented with shock-like pain in the somatosensory distribution of the right trigeminal nerve, which was refractory to all medication. ...

INTRODUCTION Treatment-resistant trigeminal neuralgia is a distressing condition, for both the patient and the treating doctor. To our knowledge, there are no reported cases of trigeminal neuralgia successfully treated with oral sumatriptan in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old Caucasian woman was prescribed opiate analgesia for management of her treatment-resistant trigeminal ne...

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Trigeminal neuralgia caused by a tentorial dural arteriovenous fistula has rarely been reported. The mechanism underlying the development of trigeminal neuralgia has been reported to be the compression of the root entry zone by the arterialized draining vein. However, the cases showing refractory or recurrent neuralgia could imply the presence of another underlying mechanism. We herein describe...

In three patients, trigeminal sensory symptoms remitted with treatment of associated hydrocephalus, two with facial pain resembling trigeminal neuralgia, and one with facial paraesthesiae. The pathological basis of these phenomena and their relationship to idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia are discussed.

Neurovascular contact is considered a frequent cause of classical trigeminal neuralgia and microvascular decompression with transposition of a blood vessel is preferred over other surgical options in medically refractory patients with classical trigeminal neuralgia. However, the prevalence of neurovascular contact has not been investigated in a representative cohort of patients with classical t...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a neuropathic disease characterized by severe pain that reduces the patient's quality of life. This case report presents Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) positive whose only neurological symptom trigeminal neuralgia. A 59-year-old male patient with complaints weakness, joint pain, cough, and respiratory failure was diagnosed COVID-19. The started on COVID-19 treatment...

Aim: To write a review on trigeminal neuralgia. Objective: To analyze the competence of the new trends over the old trends and decipher the advantages and disadvantages of both. Background: Trigeminal Neuralgia is a clinical syndrome characterized by brief, repetitive, extremely intense paroxysms of unilateral facial pain. The pain can be triggered by cutaneous stimuli including those resulting...