A 69-year-old woman developed acute pain in the left trigeminal and glossopharyngeal nerve distributions. MR imaging demonstrated a left lateral medullary infarction (LMI) involving the left spinotrigeminal nucleus and tract, nucleus ambiguus, and solitary nucleus. Most patients presenting with trigeminal neuralgia will have disease involving the trigeminal nerve or ganglion or the primary sens...

PURPOSE Percutaneous ganglion balloon compression (PBC) is a minimally invasive procedure for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-seven (19 female and 8 male) patients, who presented with classical symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia, were included. Age ranged from 34 to 91 years (median 62 years), 33 procedures were performed. Duration of the symptoms ranged from 1 y...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a common cause of facial pain. It has a significant impact on the quality of life and the socioeconomic functioning of the patient. The aim of this review is to provide recommendations for medical management of trigeminal neuralgia based on current evidence. Based upon the analyses of the literature combined with experience in pain management, symptoms, assessment, diffe...

This report describes a case of bilateral greater occipital neuralgia treated with cooled radiofrequency ablation. The case is considered in relation to a review of greater occipital neuralgia, continuous thermal and pulsed radiofrequency ablation, and current medical literature on cooled radiofrequency ablation. In this case, a 35-year-old female with a 2.5-year history of chronic suboccipital...

BACKGROUND Trigeminal neuralgia is a debilitating condition caused by compression of the trigeminal nerve, ganglions, or divisions. Gamma knife radiosurgery has been increasingly used in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia as a non-invasive alternative to microvascular decompression and rhizotomies. METHODS We reviewed the medical literature regarding outcomes, time course, and prognostic f...


 OBJECTIVES:
 To determine the frequency of cerebellopontine angle tumors in patients presented with trigeminal neuralgia.
 METHODOLOGY:
 This descriptive study was conducted Neurosurgery Department, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar from 01-01-2016 to 31-12-2019. Patients either gender and above 18 years age diagnosed be having neuralgia being symptomatic a minimum durat...

Abstract Neurovascular conflicts are common in the posterior fossa and basal cisterns due to coexistence of important neural vascular structures. conflict arising from compression cranial nerves by pulsatile flow adjacent atherosclerotic arteries is well known associated with conditions like trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, glossopharyngeal neuralgia. The medulla be affected dilated tort...