Microvascular Decompression using Muscle Graft for Vertebral Artery Medullary Compression Syndrome
Nepal Journal of Neuroscience, 2020 It is well known that brainstem dysfunction may be caused by vascular compression of the medulla oblongata. However, only a limited number of reports have found microvascular decompression surgery to be an effective treatment for symptomatic patients ...
Prasanna Karki +5 more
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Trigeminal neuralgia recurrence: a comparison of microvascular decompression and percutaneous balloon compression: a five years follow-up study [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2021 Background: About 50% of patients that suffer from trigeminal neuralgia do not experience sustained benefit from the use of oral medication. For their adequate management, a few surgical procedures are available.
Jennyfer Paulla Galdino CHAVES +4 more
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Autologous bone fragments for skull reconstruction after microvascular decompression
BMC Surgery, 2022 Background Various methods are used to reconstruct the skull after microvascular decompression, giving their own advantages and disadvantages. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of using autologous bone fragments for skull ...
Yuankun Cai +10 more
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Trigeminal neuralgia: new classification and diagnostic grading for practice and research [PDF]
, 2016 Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is an exemplary condition of neuropathic facial pain. However, formally classifying TN as neuropathic pain based on the grading system of the International Association for the Study of Pain is complicated by the requirement of ...
CRUCCU, Giorgio +8 more
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Microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm: a review of twenty-one operated cases
The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 2020 Background Microvascular decompression of facial nerve provides definitive and long-term cure for hemifacial spasm. We review our experience of treating hemifacial spasm by microvascular decompression.
Amey P. Patankar
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Microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia - a prospective study of 115 patients
The Journal of Headache and Pain, 2022 Background Trigeminal neuralgia is a severe facial pain disorder. Microvascular decompression is first choice surgical treatment of patients with classical TN.
Anne Sofie Schott Andersen +7 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 Classical trigeminal neuralgia (CTN) is a unilateral and severe facial pain disease, which seriously affects the patient's quality of life. Microvascular decompression (MVD) is currently the most effective surgical method, and it is the only treatment ...
Gui Yu +7 more
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Epidemiology and outcomes of vertebral artery injury in 16582 cervical spine surgery patients: An AOSpine North America multicenter study [PDF]
, 2017 STUDY DESIGN: A multicenter retrospective case series was compiled involving 21 medical institutions. Inclusion criteria included patients who underwent cervical spine surgery between 2005 and 2011 and who sustained a vertebral artery injury (VAI ...
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Brain Sciences, 2022 Microvascular decompression (MVD) is the only etiological technique for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia (TN). Whilst there is a consensus MVD is likely effective regardless of age, the elderly population is thought to be more prone to have a higher
Grazia Menna +6 more
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Trigeminal neuralgia - diagnosis and treatment [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is characterized by touch-evoked unilateral brief shock-like paroxysmal pain in one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve. In addition to the paroxysmal pain, some patients also have continuous pain.
Bendtsen, Lars +3 more
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