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ReviewAsian journal of neurosurgery

Trigeminal Neuralgia.

Yad Ram Yadav, Yadav Nishtha, Pande Sonjjay, Parihar Vijay, Ratre Shailendra, Khare Yatin

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Review in Asian journal of neurosurgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 101 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yad Ram YadavDepartment of Neurosurgery, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Yadav NishthaDepartment of Radio Diagnosis and Imaging, All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India.
Pande SonjjayDepartment of Radio Diagnosis and Imaging, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Parihar VijayDepartment of Neurosurgery, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Ratre ShailendraDepartment of Neurosurgery, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Khare YatinDepartment of Neurosurgery, NSCB Medical College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a sudden, severe, brief, stabbing, and recurrent pain within one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve. Type 1 as intermittent and Type 2 as constant pain represent distinct clinical, pathological, and prognostic entities. Although multiple mechanism involving peripheral pathologies at root (compression or traction), and dysfunctions of brain stem, basal ganglion, and cortical pain modulatory mechanisms could have role, neurovascular conflict is the most accepted theory. Diagnosis is essentially clinically; magnetic resonance imaging is useful to rule out secondary causes, detect pathological changes in affected root and neurovascular compression (NVC). Carbamazepine is the drug of choice; oxcarbazepine, baclofen, lamotrigine, phenytoin, and topiramate are also useful. Multidrug regimens and multidisciplinary approaches are useful in selected patients. Microvascular decompression is surgical treatment of choice in TN resistant to medical management. Patients with significant medical comorbidities, without NVC and multiple sclerosis are generally recommended to undergo gamma knife radiosurgery, percutaneous balloon compression, glycerol rhizotomy, and radiofrequency thermocoagulation procedures. Partial sensory root sectioning is indicated in negative vessel explorations during surgery and large intraneural vein. Endoscopic technique can be used alone for vascular decompression or as an adjuvant to microscope. It allows better visualization of vascular conflict and entire root from pons to ganglion including ventral aspect. The effectiveness and completeness of decompression can be assessed and new vascular conflicts that may be missed by microscope can be identified. It requires less brain retraction.

Indexed as

Cranial nervemicrovascular decompressionneurosurgical procedures/methodsroute entry zonetrigeminal nerve diseasestrigeminal neuralgiatrigeminal neuralgia/surgery

Identifiers

PMID29114270
PMCPMC5652082
OpenAlexW4235264120

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