Trigeminal neuralgia secondary to osteoma and vascular compression: illustrative case
Chenglong Cao, Mingwu Li, Min Wu, Xiaofeng Jiang · 2023
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Description
Chenglong Cao and co-authors report a rare cause of face pain in a case paper from two thousand twenty-three. Trigeminal neuralgia brings severe pain to one side of the face. In this patient, two problems pressed on the nerve at once: a bony growth near the skull base and a loop of blood vessel.
The patient was a man aged forty-six with three years of severe pain on the right side of his face. Scans showed both the growth and the vessel loop. Surgeons removed the growth and freed the nerve from the vessel in one combined operation. He left the hospital without complications and free of pain. The authors urge doctors to consider this rare double cause.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chenglong Cao, Mingwu Li, Min Wu, Xiaofeng Jiang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |