Trigeminal neuralgia associated with an anomalous artery originating from the persistent primitive trigeminal artery

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 194-197

  Yamada, Yoshitaka ^a   Kondo, Akinori ^a   Tanabe, Hideki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomalous anterior inferior cerebellar artery; Microvascular decompression; Primitive trigeminal artery; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CISTERNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS ARTERY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBELLUM; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSURGERY; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 33646483836     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.194     Document Type: Article

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