Trigeminal neuralgia in a patient with a dural arteriovenous fistula in Meckel's cave: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 216-221

  Du, Rose ^a   Binder, Devin K ^a   Halbach, Van ^a   Fischbein, Nancy ^a   Barbaro, Nicholas M ^a   Burchiel, Kim J ^b   Sandquist, Michael ^b   Sindou, Marc P ^b   Morgan, Chad J ^b   Tew Jr , John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Box 0112 ^*

Author keywords

Dural arteriovenous fistula; Embolization; Microvascular surgery; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DURA MATER; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GANGLION BLOCK; HUMAN; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 0038048453     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000069535.42897.1F     Document Type: Article

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