Trigeminal neuralgia due to pontine infarction

Headache

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1043-1045

  Peker, Selcuk ^a   Akansel, Gur ^b   Sun, Ibrahim ^a   Pamir, Necmettin M ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Infarction; Ischemia; Pons; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

AGED; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DERMATOME; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

AGED; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PONS; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 8844225478     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.4200_1.x     Document Type: Article

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