Notice: Users may be experiencing issues with displaying some pages on stanfordhealthcare.org. We are working closely with our technical teams to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.
 

Learn about the flu shot, COVID-19 vaccine, and our masking policy »

Stanford Health Care

Familial trigeminal neuralgia - Case report and review of the literature JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY Fleetwood, I. G., Innes, A. M., Hansen, S. R., Steinberg, G. K. 2001; 95 (3): 513-517

Abstract

The authors report the case of a 45-year-old woman with medically intractable trigeminal neuralgia (TN) in whom a good clinical response to partial sectioning of the trigeminal nerve was attained. No evidence of vascular compression was found intraoperatively. Several other members of her family, involving three generations, also suffered from TN. The treatment of all affected patients is discussed in the context of a literature review in which the controversies surrounding the origins of the disease and treatment options for patients with the familial variant of TN are addressed.

View details for Web of Science ID 000170894600023

View details for PubMedID 11565877