Trigeminal neuralgia caused by a persistent primitive trigeminal artery variant passing through Meckel’s cavity: a case report
Zhengyan Zhu, Zhenpan Zhang, Risheng Liang · 2023
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Zhengyan Zhu, Zhenpan Zhang, and Risheng Liang report a rare artery variant behind facial pain in a 2023 case paper. A leftover embryonic artery had persisted into adult life and passed through a small skull cavity. There it pressed on the trigeminal nerve, a very uncommon cause of this pain syndrome.
The patient was a seventy-three-year-old woman with ten years of right-sided facial pain. Drugs had failed to control it. Imaging suggested the variant artery squeezing the nerve near its root. During decompression surgery, the vessel was seen continuing into a cerebellar artery. Follow-up scans confirmed that course after the operation. Her pain vanished and stayed away through twelve months of checks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zhengyan Zhu, Zhenpan Zhang, Risheng Liang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |