Reoperation for persistent or recurrent hemifacial spasm after microvascular decompression

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1162-1166

  Park, Yong S ^a   Chang, Jong H ^a   Cho, Joon ^b   Park, Yong G ^a   Chung, Sang S ^a   Chang, Jin W ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hemifacial spasm; Magnetic resonance angiography; Microvascular decompression; Recurrence; Reoperation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; BLOOD VESSELS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33745063876     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000215954.97948.B3     Document Type: Article

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