Younes Walid M, Capelle Hans-Holger, Krauss Joachim K
Department of Neurosurgery, Benha Medical School, Kalubia, Egypt.
Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2010;88(3):193-5. doi: 10.1159/000313873. Epub 2010 May 1.
The authors present the case of a 63-year-old woman with a 5-year history of intractable paroxysmal 'atypical' otofacial pain. The patient's pain attacks were not typical for either trigeminal or vagoglossopharyngeal neuralgia. Surgical exploration via a suboccipital retromastoid craniotomy showed vascular compression of the nervus intermedius by the anterior inferior cerebellar artery and the patient's pain was successfully managed with microvascular decompression.