Trigeminal Lipomatosis: A Rare Cause of Intractable Neuralgia

Authors

Apoorva Sehgal Department of Radio-diagnosis, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
Jyoti Kumar Department of Radio-diagnosis, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
Ishwar Singh Department of Radio-diagnosis, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
Ashish Gopal Department of Radio-diagnosis, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3941/jrcr.v17i8.4709

Keywords:

Trigeminal neuralgia, lipomatosis, fibrolipomatous hamartoma, meckels cave, foramen ovale, Magnetic resonance imaging, Computed tomography

Abstract

Lipomatosis of nerve, earlier known as fibrolipomatous hamartoma is a rare condition which predominantly affects peripheral nerves, cranial nerve involvement being extremely uncommon. Preoperative consideration of this entity is of paramount importance as its inadvertent complete surgical resection may inevitably result in significant neurological deficit. We report a case of trigeminal lipomatosis in a young patient with trigeminal neuralgia.

23-year-old female with left trigeminal nerve lipomatosis.

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Published

2023-08-15

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 8 (2023)

Section

Neuroradiology

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