Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia: Update

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 296-301

  Zakrzewska, Joanna M ^a   Coakham, Hugh B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microvascular decompression; Prognosticators; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ANALGESIA; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ATAXIA; BRAIN ARTERY; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEARING LOSS; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIQUORRHEA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MENINGITIS; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUNCT SYNDROME; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; WOUND INFECTION;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 84860773749     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e328352c465     Document Type: Review

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