Reducing unnecessary morbidity from percutaneous thermocoagulation in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia - Part C: A starting point for a somatotopic map of the human gasserian ganglion

Neurological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 835-842

  Karol, Eduardo A ^a   Pérez, Adrsana ^a   Cueto, Gerardo ^a   Karol, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Functional neurosurgery; Instrumentation; Pain; Thermocoagulation; Thermorhyzotomy; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SENSATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMOCOAGULATION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTRODES; FACE; HUMANS; PAIN; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 29044448569     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164105X63593     Document Type: Article

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