Unanticipated complication of percutaneous radiofrequency trigeminal rhizotomy rhinorrhea: Report of three cases and a cadaver study

Neurosurgery

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1522-1526

  Ugur, Hasan Caglar ^a   Savas, Ali ^a   Elhan, Alaittin ^a   Kanpolat, Yücel ^a   Limonadi, Farhad ^b   Burchiel, Kim J ^b   Lunsford, L Dade ^b   Meyerson, Björn A ^b   Sagher, Oren ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Ibni Sina Hastanesi ^*

Author keywords

Anatomy; Complication; Radiofrequency rhizotomy; Rhinorrhea; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE; BRAIN STEM; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CRANIAL NERVE; DECOMPRESSION; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MECKEL CAVE; NASOPHARYNX; NEEDLE; NEUROSURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS RADIOFREQUENCY TRIGEMINAL RHIZOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; RHINORRHEA; RHIZOTOMY; TISSUE FIXATION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 2542626759     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000125327.89321.D7     Document Type: Article

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