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JOURNAL OF MAXILLOFACIAL & ORAL SURGERY
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 400-409Publisher
SPRINGER INDIA
DOI: 10.1007/s12663-012-0451-x
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Trigeminal neuralgia; Surgical modalities; Comparative evaluation
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Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a debilitating ailment. Pharmacotherapy still remains the first line therapy for the management of TN. However, often the patients become refractory to the pharmacotherapy and need surgical interventions. There is a wide array of surgical treatment modalities available for TN and it is important to select the most appropriate surgery for a patient. This review evaluates the various surgical modalities by employing a comparative analysis with respect to patient selection, success rate, complications and cost effectiveness. For the evaluation, a critical review of literature was done with predefined search terms to obtain the details of individual procedures, which were then compared, under similar parameters. The results suggested that microvascular decompression seem to be the most effective treatment in terms of patient satisfaction and long term cost effectiveness. However, if patient factors do not permit, then the peripheral procedures may be employed as a substitute, though they have higher recurrence rate and complications and have relatively lower long term cost effectiveness. The newer modalities like stereotactic radiosurgery and botulinum injections have promising results and further refinement in these procedures will provide additional options for the patients suffering from TN.
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