Constant facial pain in the trigeminal distribution. Does it respond to microvascular decompression?

J Neurosurg. 2010 Sep;113(3):508-9; discussion 509-10. doi: 10.3171/2009.11.JNS091697.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease
  • Decompression, Surgical*
  • Facial Pain / diagnosis
  • Facial Pain / pathology
  • Facial Pain / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Microvessels / pathology
  • Microvessels / surgery*
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / diagnosis
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / pathology
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / surgery
  • Neurosurgical Procedures*
  • Patient Selection
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Trigeminal Nerve / pathology
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia / diagnosis
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia / pathology
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia / surgery*