Sundararajan Srihari, Loevner Laurie A, Mohan Suyash
ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec. 2018;80(2):103-107. doi: 10.1159/000489462. Epub 2018 Jul 11.
Trigeminal neuropathy manifests as episodic sharp, shooting pain in the maxillofacial region. Contributory etiologies are myriad, ranging from central pathology affecting its origin in the brainstem to peripheral processes affecting their distal-most insertion sites. We present a case of bilateral hypoplastic Meckel's caves in an adult patient leading to the clinical symptomology of trigeminal neuralgia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only report of its kind highlighting this anatomic variant.
三叉神经病变表现为颌面部发作性锐痛、刺痛。其致病原因众多,从影响其脑干起源的中枢病变到影响其最远端插入部位的外周病变。我们报告一例成年患者双侧梅克尔腔发育不全导致三叉神经痛临床症状的病例。据我们所知,这是突出这种解剖变异的唯一此类报告。