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Reducing unnecessary morbidity from percutaneous thermocoagulation in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. Part B:
Eduardo A Karol1, Bettina Karol, Marcelo Larramendy
1Department of Neurosurgery, Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. drkarol@fibertel.com.ar
Objectives:
An original method and technique was designed to reduce the still significant morbidity of percutaneous thermocoagulation in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. A critical part of this technique is the computerized analysis of data, which is the subject of this report.
Method:
We fully describe the computerized program for data collection and analysis, which is designed to evaluate addressed and unaddressed aspects of trigeminal neuralgia using the quadripolar electrode method and technique.
Results And Discussion:
The computerized analysis of multiple clinical and radiological variables, including verbal responses from 34 facial subsegments, allows the description of the somatotopic map of the human gasserian ganglion, and the conclusions propose to attempt to abolish unnecessary residual morbidity of thermocoagulation in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
