Classification of trigeminal neuralgia: Clinical, therapeutic, and prognostic implications in a series of 144 patients undergoing microvascular decompression - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1231-1234

  Miller, Jonathan P ^a   Acar, Feridun ^a   Burchiel, Kim J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial pain; Microvascular decompression; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DECOMPRESSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA 2; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA TYPE 1; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; ARTERY; MICROVASCULATURE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VEIN;

ARTERIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; VEINS;

EID: 74949126467     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.6.17604     Document Type: Article

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