Demonstration of neurovascular compression in trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm with magnetic resonance imaging - Comparison with surgical findings in 60 consecutive cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-99

  Fukuda, Hitoshi ^a,b   Ishikawa, Masatsune ^a   Okumura, Ryosuke ^a  

^a Kitano Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemifacial spasm; Magnetic resonance tomographic angiography; Neurovascular compression; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE MALFORMATION; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 0037295903     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(02)00993-X     Document Type: Article

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