[Trigeminal involvement following preventive influenza vaccination].

Neuralgia-like complaints occurred in the region served by the ramus ophthalmicus et maxillaris nervi trigemini dexter of a woman aged 48 years two days after she had been inocculated with an inactivated influenza-A adsorbate complete vaccine (A/Bangkok/1/79 (H3-N2)); (A/Brazil/11/78 (H1-N1)). The clinical findings are explained, and the possibility of a connection between the symptomatology and a previous inocculation is discussed.