Microvascular decompression in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia gaused by vertebrobasilar ectasia

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 330-337

  El Ghandour, Nasser M F ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Microvascular decompression; Trigeminal neuralgia; Vertebrobasilar ectasia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORNEA REFLEX; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE DURATION; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPESTHESIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOTOMY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; TROCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBROBASILAR ECTASIA; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERTIGO;

ANESTHESIA; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 77955002919     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000371978.86528.60     Document Type: Article

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