Gamma knife radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia: Results and potentially predictive parameters - Part I: Idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1254-1260

  Longhi, Michele ^a   Rizzo, Paolo ^a   Nicolato, Antonio ^a   Foroni, Roberto ^a   Reggio, Mario ^a   Gerosa, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Pain; Radiosurgery; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; COLLIMATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 37649011153     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000306104.68635.d4     Document Type: Article

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