Wallenberg’s syndrome and symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia

• DOI: 10.1007/s10194-011-0305-9
• Publication Date: 2011-02-09T10:02:42Z
• Authors: Carlos M. Ordás; María L. Cuadrado; Patricia Simal; Raúl Barahona; Javier Casas; Jordi Matías-Guiu...; Jesús Porta-Etessam
• Keywords: Pain medicine; Stroke; Trigeminal Nerve; Pain syndrome

Symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia due to a brainstem infarction is said be rare. However, facial pain not uncommon in Wallenberg's syndrome. Facial related syndrome may either persistent of intermittent, and occasionally occurs brief attacks. Here, we report patient with right lateral medullary who started having first division 1 month after the stroke. The paroxysms were suppressed gabapentin.