Essential trigeminal neuralgia
Rusu, M.; Stanciu, A.; Robu, C.; Anghel, M.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 86(1): 77-80
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 25591255 Document Number: 183524
Out of a series of 364 patients, 56 cases of essential trigeminal neuralgias operated upon by retrogasserian radicotomy by intradural temporal route are presented. Pointing out that we are in a period of confrontation between the great surgery, classical or micro-neurosurgery of the trigeminal nerve and the drug therapy or percutaneous surgery, the authors conclude that the indication of great surgery is restricted but has not disappeared--taking into account the good permanent results obtained (89%) and the reduced rate of failures and recurrences (11%). In the conditions of a general anesthesia with intracranial hypotension and correct surveillance the surgeon has gaine an extra security when performing these operations.