Trigeminal neuralgia: For one nerve a multitude of treatments

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1565-1579

  Cheshire Jr , William P ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial pain; Multiple sclerosis; Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias; Trigeminal neuralgia; Trigeminal neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMITRIPTYLINE; BACLOFEN; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; GABAPENTIN; GLYCEROL; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; MILNACIPRAN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO; PREGABALIN; SUMATRIPTAN; TIZANIDINE; TOPIRAMATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ABSCESS; ALLERGIC RASH; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANKLE EDEMA; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ATAXIA; BALLOON COMPRESSION; BLINDNESS; BLOOD VESSEL DECOMPRESSION; BLURRED VISION; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DEMYELINATION; DESQUAMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSGEUSIA; FACE PAIN; FACIAL HEMATOMA; FEVER; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GINGIVA HYPERPLASIA; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LASSITUDE; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MASSETER MUSCLE; MENINGITIS; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NERVE CELL; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PATHOGENESIS; RADIOFREQUENCY THERMOCOAGULATION; REVIEW; RHIZOTOMY; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TACHYPHYLAXIS; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; DANDY-WALKER SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA; RADIOSURGERY; RHIZOTOMY; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 36148966476     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.7.11.1565     Document Type: Review

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