Persistent trigeminal neuralgia after removal of contralateral posterior cranial fossa tumor. Report of two cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-61

  Grigoryan, Yuri A ^a   Onopchenko, Catherine V ^a  

^a Botkin Hospital   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Contralateral mass; Facial pain; False localizing sign; Rhizotomy; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RHIZOTOMY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

AGED; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; RHIZOTOMY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; SUPPURATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 0033168247     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(99)00050-6     Document Type: Article

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