Association between neurovascular contact on MRI and response to gamma knife radiosurgery in trigeminal neuralgia

Neuroradiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-30

  Erbay, Sami H ^a   Bhadelia, Rafeeque A ^a   Riesenburger, Ron ^a   Gupta, Punita ^a   O'Callaghan, Mark ^a   Yun, Eric ^a   Oljeski, Steven ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gammaknife radiosurgery; Trigeminal nerve; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE ROOT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 33644775808     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-005-0008-5     Document Type: Article

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