Computed tomography-guided percutaneous trigeminal tractotomy-nucleotomy

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Kanpolat, Yucel ^a,b   Kahilogullari, Gokmen ^a   Ugur, Hasan C ^a   Elhan, Atilla H ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Central pain; Facial pain; Nociceptive pain; Trigeminal tractus nucleus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FACE CANCER; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH PAIN; NEUROSURGERY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIRGEMINAL TRACTOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEOTOMY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VAGOGLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NEURALGIA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

DISKECTOMY, PERCUTANEOUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 56849088190     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000320139.27501.69     Document Type: Article

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