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[Neurosurgical treatment of essential facial neuralgia]
1Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Creteil.
Annales De Radiologie
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The authors describe the neurosurgical techniques currently available for the treatment of essential trigeminal neuralgia refractory to the usual medical treatments. They compare the advantages and disadvantages of percutaneous techniques (particularly thermocoagulation of the trigeminal ganglion) and open techniques (especially microsurgical treatment of neurovascular conflict in the cerebellopontine angle.