BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Gamma knife radiosurgery is an alternative for the treatment of medically refractory trigeminal neuralgia. Few reports of posttreatment MR imaging appearance of cranial nerve V exist. Our purpose was to define MR imaging characteristics in cranial nerve V after gamma knife radiosurgery. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed MR images of 15 patients who underwent gamma kni...

We report the case of a 28-year-old male patient diagnosed with extensive metastatic Ewing sarcoma that affected his facial bones. The came to us left-sided jaw/facial pain could not be managed successfully through conservative methods. utilized radiofrequency ablation (RFA) left Gasserian (trigeminal) ganglion alleviate patient's successfully. Although this method is commonly used treat trigem...

Timely management of trigeminal neuralgia presenting with severe, sustained, crescendo pain can be difficult with oral medications. More rapid pain control often can be achieved using intravenous phenytoin. Fosphenytoin is a phosphate ester prodrug of phenytoin that is significantly better tolerated parenterally than phenytoin in the treatment of epilepsy. Three patients with trigeminal neuralg...