Ultrasonic lesion of the trigeminal nucleus caudalis for deafferentation facial pain.

Slavin, K V · Acta Neurochir (Wien) · 1994

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Abstract

The deafferentation facial pain syndrome, caused by physical, herpetic or tumourous lesions of the trigeminal sensory root, was successfully managed with ultrasonic trigeminal nucleotomy. The article presents this new surgical technique and its results in 14 patients suffering from severe facial pain and dysaesthesias.

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