Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is an intensely painful condition in which the trigeminal, or fifth cranial nerve, becomes irritated. TN can be an early symptom of multiple sclerosis. People who have ...

The spine contains many spaces, or foramen, that allow the spinal nerves to pass and travel to and from muscles and sensory nerve endings. A foraminotomy is a surgical procedure to widen those ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is one of the most severe forms of pain in human experience. It is also a treatable condition if recognized and managed properly. As for any painful diagnosis ...

It’s like having a very complicated inbox and outbox for everything. The Role of Nerves in Identifying Pain Sensations Let’s say you step on a rock. How does a sensory nerve in the peripheral nervous ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a condition characterized by recurrent ... The modified Hartel anterior approach was utilized for puncturing the foramen ovale, with needle insertion guided by C-arm ...

Introduction: Conventional management approaches have been challenged in dealing with zoster-related trigeminal neuralgia. Percutaneous trigeminal ganglion ... which can be attributed to the unique ...

The correlation between trigeminal nerve-root section and the appearance of vesicles is shown in Table 1, which summarizes data relative to operative procedure, postoperative herpes and virus and ...

These are the most commonly used approaches for migraine: In supraorbital stimulation, or external trigeminal nerve stimulation (e-TNS) — sometimes referred to as transcutaneous electrical nerve ...

Experienced surgeons are able to resect gross perineural tumor spread proximally until they reach the skull at the level of the foramen rotundum/ovale or ... the involved nerve might be resected ...