Frameless stereotactic cannulation of the foramen ovale for ablative treatment of trigeminal neuralgia

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 4 SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Bale, Reto J ^a   Laimer, Ilse ^a   Martin, Arno ^a   Schlager, Andreas ^a   Mayr, Christoph ^a   Rieger, Michael ^a   Czermak, Benedikt V ^a   Kovacs, Peter ^a   Widmann, Gerlig ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ablative neurosurgery; Foramen ovale; Frameless stereotaxy; Gasserian ganglion; Image guided therapy; Navigation system; Percutaneous surgery; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SIMULATION; SKULL FORAMEN OVALE; SPHENOID; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THERMOCOAGULATION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VACUUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 33750063948     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000232770.97616.D0     Document Type: Article

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