Pain relief after cervical ganglionectomy (C2 and C3) for the treatment of medically intractable occipital neuralgia

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 106-112

  Acar, Feridun ^a,d   Miller, Jonathan ^a,b   Golshani, Kiarash J ^a   Israel, Zvi H ^c   McCartney, Shirley ^a   Burchiel, Kim J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cervical nerve root; Cervicogenic headache; Ganglionectomy; Occipital neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL GANGLION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GANGLION BLOCK; GANGLIONECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; MALE; NEURALGIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OCCIPITAL NEURALGIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SENSORY GANGLION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FACIAL NEURALGIA; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GANGLIONECTOMY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40349085840     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000113872     Document Type: Article

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