Chronic recurrent trigeminal neuritis of the maxillary branch confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging

Soon-Ho Hong; Yong-Duk Kim; Sang-Jun Na; Kee Ook Lee; Yun Kyung Park; Bora Yoon

doi:10.14253/acn.2017.19.2.145

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Hong, Kim, Na, Lee, Park, and Yoon: Chronic recurrent trigeminal neuritis of the maxillary branch confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging

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J Rheum Dis 2017;19(2):145-147.

Published online: 5 January 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14253/acn.2017.19.2.145

Chronic recurrent trigeminal neuritis of the maxillary branch confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging

Soon-Ho Hong, Yong-Duk Kim, Sang-Jun Na, Kee Ook Lee, Yun Kyung Park, Bora Yoon

Department of Neurology, Konyang University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea

Correspondence to Bora Yoon Department of Neurology, Konyang University Hospital, 158 Gwanjeodong-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon 35365, Korea Tel: +82-42-600-9156 Fax: +82-42-545-0050 E-mail: boradori3@kyuh.ac.kr

Received 24 May 20179 June 2017 Accepted 12 June 2017

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

초록

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is generally characterized by lancinating, unilateral, paroxysmal pain occurring in the distribution of the fifth cranial nerve. TN is diagnosed clinically based on the typical patient history, negative findings in a neurologic examination, and the response to medication. Idiopathic TN is the most common type, but TN can result from vascular malfor-mation, compression, trauma, neoplasm, multiple sclerosis, or inflammation. We report a TN case diagnosed as recurrent trigeminal neuritis of the maxillary branch confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging.

Keywords: Trigeminal neuralgia, Neuritis, Magnetic resonance imaging

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Fig. 1.

Magnetic resonance imaging of the cranial nerve. Diffuse swell-ing and thickening of the maxillary branch of the left trigeminal nerve was noted in a nonenhanced fluid-attenuated inversion recovery with fat saturation axial image (A) and in an enhanced image (B) (arrows). The enhancement on the left maxillary branch of the trigeminal nerve at the cavernous portion and foramen rotundum was not detected in an enhanced T1-weighted axial image (D) but not in a nonenhanced image (C) (arrows).

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