Familial trigeminal neuralgia and contralateral hemifacial spasm

Authors
Duff, JM Spinner, RJ Lindor, NM Dodick, DW Atkinson, JLD
Citation
Jm. Duff et al., Familial trigeminal neuralgia and contralateral hemifacial spasm, NEUROLOGY, 53(1), 1999, pp. 216-218
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Neurology,"Neurosciences & Behavoir
Journal title
NEUROLOGY
ISSN journal
00283878 → ACNP
Volume
53
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
216 - 218
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3878(19990713)53:1<216:FTNACH>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A patient was evaluated with familial trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and contral ateral hemifacial spasm. The mother of the patient, 5 of 10 siblings, and 1 nephew also had TN confirmed by neurologists. The transmission of TN was s uggestive of an autosomal dominant inheritance. This family provides additi onal evidence of a genetic basis for TN in selected cases and also provokes further speculation on a common unifying hypothesis of pathophysiology in cranial rhizopathies.