Neurovascular relationship at the trigeminal root entry zone in persistent idiopathic facial pain: Findings from MRI 3D visualisation

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1506-1509

  Lang, E ^a   Naraghi, R ^a   Tanrikulu, L ^a   Hastreiter, P ^a   Fahlbusch, R ^a   Neundorfer B ^a   Troscher Weber R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ARTERIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; VEINS;

EID: 27444444696     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.066084     Document Type: Article

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