Trigeminal Neuralgia Caused by Cerebellar Arteriovenous Malformations: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Abstract

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a syndrome characterized by paroxysmal pain, originating from compression in the trigeminal neurogenic root entrance zone (REZ). Sometimes compression can be caused by local arterio-venous malformations (AVM) which are less common clinically. In our study, we review the literature of AVMs caused trigeminal neuralgia and we represented a TN case caused by cerebellar AVM which we treated by surgical resection of the AVM and after we performed a microvascular decompression.

Even if trigeminal neuralgia caused by AVMs requires a multi-model approach for treatment in our study we wanted to show that after successful microsurgical resection without complications treatment can be achieved successfully.