Patterns of pain-free response in 497 cases of classic trigeminal neuralgia treated with Gamma Knife surgery and followed up for least 1 year

Tuleasca, Constantin; Carron, Romain; Resseguier, Noémie; Donnet, Anne; Roussel, Philippe; Gaudart, Jean; Levivier, Marc; Régis, Jean

doi:10.3171/2012.8.gks121015

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Patterns of pain-free response in 497 cases of classic trigeminal neuralgia treated with Gamma Knife surgery and followed up for least 1 year

Published in Journal of neurosurgery • Dec 1, 2012

Authors:

Constantin Tuleasca

Romain Carron

Noémie Resseguier

Abstract

OBJECT: The goal of this study was to establish whether clear patterns of initial pain freedom could be identified when treating patients with classic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) by using Gamma Knife surgery (GKS). The authors compared hypesthesia and pain recurrence rates to see if statistically sign...

Subject

Medicine

Trigeminal neuralgia

Hypesthesia

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