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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, Xiuling Zhang, Xiaobin Chen, Xuan Dai, Songshan Chai, Guo Li, Zhimin Mei, Joshua Ho, Jincao Chen, Luoqing Li, Nanxiang Xiong   +10 more
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Microvascular decompression: Diversified of imaging uses, advantages of treating trigeminal neuralgia and improvement after the application of endoscopic technology

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, Gui Yu, Jingxing Leng, Yinghua Xia, Yinghua Xia, Feixiang Min, Feixiang Min, Hui Xiang   +7 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, Tone Bruvik Heinskou, Per Rochat, Jacob Bertram Springborg, Navid Noory, Emil Andonov Smilkov, Lars Bendtsen, Stine Maarbjerg   +7 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, Tatiana Von Hertwig Fernandes DE OLIVEIRA, Alexandre Novick FRANCISCO, Mariana de Oliveira TRINTINALHA, Niels Vinicius Pádua CARVALHO   +4 more
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Preoperative visualization of neurovascular contact with 3D-FIESTA combined with 3D-TOF MRA to guide microvascular decompression surgery planning

, 2020
Background:Neurovascular compression syndromes including trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and hemifacial spasm (HFS) are caused by neurovascular conflicts at the root entry zone of the corresponding cranial nerves in the posterior fossa.
Dezhong Liu, Pengfei Shi, Kai Li, Yazhou Guo, Xiao Liu, Changwei Wang, Yü Liu, Bing He, Xiaoyang Zhang   +8 more
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Surgical and Clinical Outcomes of Microvascular Decompression: A Comparative Study between Young and Elderly Patients

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, Alessandro Rapisarda, Alessandro Izzo, Manuela D’Ercole, Quintino Giorgio D’Alessandris, Alessandro Olivi, Nicola Montano   +6 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, Finnerup, Nanna B, Jensen, Troels S, Nurmikko, Turo, Scholz, Joachim, Sindou, Marc, Svensson, Peter, Treede, Rolf Detlef, Zakrzewska, Joanna M   +8 more
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Transposition of posterior inferior cerebellar artery could have caused ischemic complication in microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2019
Ischemic complications are generally rare complications in microvascular decompression surgery for hemifacial spasm. We report a case of posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) infarction post-microvascular decompression. A 68-year old woman with a 2-
Naohide Fujita, Satoshi Adachi, Mario Suzuki, Yuzaburo Shimizu, Osamu Akiyama, Akihide Kondo   +5 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, Cruccu, Giorgio, DI STEFANO, Giulia, Maarbjerg, Stine   +3 more
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