Advanced age as a contraindication to microvascular decompression for drug-resistant trigeminal neuralgia: Evidence of prejudice?

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-28

  Ferroli, Paolo ^a   Acerbi, Francesco ^a   Tomei, Massimo ^a   Tringali, Giovanni ^a   Franzini, Angelo ^a   Broggi, Giovanni ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced age; Microvascular decompression; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOACUSIS; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NAUSEA; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VERTIGO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76449088736     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-009-0156-1     Document Type: Article

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