Neuropathic pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system is a
common chronic pain condition with major impact on quality of life. Examples include …

Background Trigeminal neuralgia is a severe facial pain disorder. Microvascular
decompression is first choice surgical treatment of patients with classical TN. There exist few …

Microscopic microvascular decompression (MVD) has been considered a curative and
reliable method for treating classical trigeminal neuralgia (TN) for decades. Endoscopy can …

Objective Common surgical treatments for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) include microvascular
decompression (MVD) and percutaneous procedures (glycerol rhizolysis; …

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a common, debilitating neuropathic face pain syndrome often
resistant to therapy. The familial clustering of TN cases suggests that genetic factors play a …

Background and purpose Patients with idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) with absent
arterial contact or venous contact only and classic TN with morphological changes of the …

Background This study aims to utilize the deep learning method of VB-Net to locate and
segment the trigeminal nerve, and employ radiomics methods to distinguish between CTN …

Classical trigeminal neuralgia (CTN) is a unilateral and severe facial pain disease, which
seriously affects the patient's quality of life. Microvascular decompression (MVD) is currently …

Background Stereotactic radiosurgical rhizolysis of the trigeminal nerve is an established
modality increasingly employed to alleviate the symptoms of refractory trigeminal neuralgia …

Objectives Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been used to detect microstructural alteration
and effect of surgical treatment of the trigeminal nerve root (TR) in patients with classical …