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Endoscopic Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia [PDF]
Background: A severe, intermittent pain in the trigeminal nerve distribution area on one side of the face is known as trigeminal neuralgia. The primary pathophysiological cause of trigeminal neuralgia is neurovascular compression, which results in ...
Ebrahim Atiah +2 more
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Evaluation of Clinical Outcome after Gaserian Ganglion Radiofrequency Thermocoagulation For the Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia [PDF]
Background: Trigeminal neuralgia is a common cause of sever annoying facial pain that has a great effect on patient’s life, and in drug resistant cases gaserian ganglion radiofrequency is minimally invasive, safe and effective procedure specially in ...
Saied Alaskary, Ali Khedr
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Botulinum Toxin Type A for the Treatment of Auriculotemporal Neuralgia—A Case Series
Auriculotemporal neuralgia is a rare pain disorder in which anesthetic nerve blockade is usually effective but not always resolutive. Botulinum toxin type A has proven to be effective in treating neuropathic pain, and patients with auriculotemporal ...
Yan Tereshko +4 more
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Abstract Objective Trigeminal postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is often refractory to treatment. Pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) neuromodulation can help in preventing PHN after herpes zoster. This study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of two different PRF modes on gasserian ganglion neuromodulation in elderly patients with acute/subacute trigeminal ...
Cheng‐Fu Wan, Tao Song
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A novel method to treat recurrent facial pain: a case report
Background Chronic facial pain is a serious condition affecting millions of people worldwide. The reasons for chronic facial pain vary, and currently, the methods of treating chronic facial pain are expensive, invasive, and, based on current findings ...
Jintakorn Kuvatanasuchati +1 more
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the outcomes of 354 radiofrequency rhizotomies and 21 neurovascular decompressions performed as treatment for 367 facial pain patients (290 idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia, 52 symptomatic trigeminal neuralgia, 16 atypical facial ...
Manoel J. Teixeira +2 more
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Trigeminal neuralgia is a paroxysmal, intense electric shock-like, or knife-like, recurrent pain that affects one or more sense areas of the unilateral facial trigeminal nerve.
Hao Zhou +10 more
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The lesion of the sensorial nerves of the face is expressed by painful phenomena called neuralgias of the brainstem or its branches. These may be idiopathic or essential and secondary or symptomatic and their clinical evidence and course are different ...
A J Brito
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Trigeminal neuralgia secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia and basilar artery dissection is rare. The authors report the case of a 72-year-old man with a 5-year history of right electrical facial pain identical with trigeminal neuralgia.
Yuhan Wang, Wenchao Cheng, Yajun Lian
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Neuralgias of the Trigeminal Nerve
Practitioners are often presented with patients who complain bitterly of facial pain. The trigeminal nerve is involved in four conditions that are sometimes mixed up.
Allan S Gordon
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