Percutaneous retrogasserian glycerol rhizotomy in the treatment of tic douloureux associated with multiple sclerosis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 537-543

  Pickett, Gwynedd E ^a   Bisnaire, Deborah ^a   Ferguson, Gary G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glycerol rhizotomy; Multiple sclerosis; Tic douloureux; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PERCUTANEOUS RETROGASSERIAN GLYCEROL RHIZOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RHIZOTOMY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; CARBAMAZEPINE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLYCEROL; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHIZOTOMY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; VIRIDANS STREPTOCOCCI;

EID: 14644402997     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000153907.43563.FF     Document Type: Article

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