Related Experiment Videos
Glossopharyngeal neuralgia caused by adhesive arachnoid
H Fukuda1, M Ishikawa, N Yamazoe
1Department of Neurological Surgery, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Acta Neurochirurgica
|October 17, 2002
Abstract:
Glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) is an uncommon disorder characterized by a severe lancinating pain commonly induced by swallowing. When the pain is resistant to medical management, surgical treatment such as microvascular decompression (MVD) or partial rhizotomy is performed. We report a case of glossopharyngeal neuralgia caused by adhesive arachnoid, in which pain disappeared solely by dissection of the peripheral arachnoid around the glossopharyngeal nerve.