Treatment strategy for trigeminal neuralgia: A thirty years experience

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Broggi, Giovanni ^a   Ferroli, Paolo ^a   Franzini, Angelo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balloon microcompression; Microvascular decompression; Radiofrequency thermorhyzothomy; Radiosurgery; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CRANIECTOMY; DIPLOPIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSESTHESIA; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOALGESIA; KERATITIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; OPERATION DURATION; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RADIOSURGERY; REHYDRATION; RHIZOTOMY; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; RADIOSURGERY; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 45249116806     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-008-0893-6     Document Type: Article

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