A single microvascular decompression surgery cures a patient with trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, tinnitus, hypertension, and paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia caused by the compression of a vertebral artery

Neurology India

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-75

  Yin, Jia ^a   Wang, Wenhua ^a   Zhang, Quanbin ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Microvascular decompression; paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia; vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HEART PALPITATION; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; POSTERIOR FOSSA; TINNITUS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION; NERVE COMPRESSION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TINNITUS; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 84875749849     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.108016     Document Type: Article

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