Posterior fossa exploration for trigeminal neuralgia patients older than 70 years of age

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1255-1259

  Pollock, Bruce E ^a   Stien, Kathy J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Microvascular decompression; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ATAXIA; BASILAR ARTERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DECOMPRESSION; DYSESTHESIA; FACE PAIN; FACE WEAKNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTERIOR FOSSA EXPLORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; WEAKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHIZOTOMY; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 80955135103     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822ba315     Document Type: Article

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