Microvascular decompression is a surgery to treat trigeminal neuralgia. A neurosurgeon relieves pressure (typically from a blood vessel) around the trigeminal nerve (sensory nerve running along your ...
A percutaneous rhizotomy is a minimally invasive procedure to treat trigeminal neuralgia. Our surgeons use a small needle to make a controlled, minor injury to one of your facial nerves (your ...
Specialists explain why the condition occurs, how it’s diagnosed, and the range of medical and surgical options available ...
Ten patients had varying degrees of sensory disturbance confined to the fifth cranial nerve. The second and third divisions were most commonly affected, but motor paresis and pain were notably absent, ...
Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic neuropathic pain disorder that is important to include in the differential diagnosis of head or facial pain. Trigeminal neuralgia — also known as tic douloureux — ...
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Why Trigeminal Neuralgia is called the suicide disease and how its pain becomes unbearable
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is often described as one of the most excruciating pain disorders known to medicine. It’s sometimes referred to as the “suicide disease” because of the unbearable intensity ...
A 37 year-old man presented with numbness and pain on the left side of his face. Schwannoma: (Top Left) T2-weighted axial MRI; (Top Right) T1-weighted with gadolinium axial MRI; (Bottom Left) ...
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