Percutaneous stereotactic radiofrequency lesioning for trigeminal neuralgia: Determination of minimum clinically important difference in pain improvement for patient-reported outcomes

Neurosurgery

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 262-266

  Reddy, Vishruth K ^a   Parker, Scott L ^a   Lockney, Dennis T ^a   Patrawala, Samit A ^a   Su, Pei Fang ^b,c   Mericle, Robert A ^d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d HW Neurological Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrow neurological institute pain scale; Facial pain; Minimum clinically important difference; Percutaneous stereotactic radiofrequency lesioning; Trigeminal neuralgia; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE PAIN SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH TRANSITION INDEX; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RATING SCALE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIOSURGERY; ROC CURVE; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 84896723115     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000262     Document Type: Article

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