Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a Feasible Alternative to the Frame-Based Technique for the Treatment of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia

Classic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) causes severe facial pain. Several treatment options exist for classic TN refractory to medical therapy, including stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Most studies in the medical literature used a frame-based SRS technique. Improvements in linear accelerator-based trea...

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Autores principales: Graff, Andrew E, Thomas, Andrew S, Reed, Aaron D, Skinner, William K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27186453
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.571
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author Graff, Andrew E
Thomas, Andrew S
Reed, Aaron D
Skinner, William K
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description Classic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) causes severe facial pain. Several treatment options exist for classic TN refractory to medical therapy, including stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Most studies in the medical literature used a frame-based SRS technique. Improvements in linear accelerator-based treatment systems and image guidance have led to the use of frameless SRS as a safe and feasible alternative to the frame-based technique for the treatment of refractory TN. We present a case of refractory TN successfully treated with frameless SRS.
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spelling pubmed-48668662016-05-16 Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a Feasible Alternative to the Frame-Based Technique for the Treatment of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia Graff, Andrew E Thomas, Andrew S Reed, Aaron D Skinner, William K Cureus Radiation Oncology Classic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) causes severe facial pain. Several treatment options exist for classic TN refractory to medical therapy, including stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Most studies in the medical literature used a frame-based SRS technique. Improvements in linear accelerator-based treatment systems and image guidance have led to the use of frameless SRS as a safe and feasible alternative to the frame-based technique for the treatment of refractory TN. We present a case of refractory TN successfully treated with frameless SRS. Cureus 2016-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4866866/ /pubmed/27186453 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.571 Text en Copyright © 2016, Graff et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Radiation Oncology
Graff, Andrew E
Thomas, Andrew S
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Skinner, William K
Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a Feasible Alternative to the Frame-Based Technique for the Treatment of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia
title Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a Feasible Alternative to the Frame-Based Technique for the Treatment of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_full Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a Feasible Alternative to the Frame-Based Technique for the Treatment of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_fullStr Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a Feasible Alternative to the Frame-Based Technique for the Treatment of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_full_unstemmed Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a Feasible Alternative to the Frame-Based Technique for the Treatment of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_short Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a Feasible Alternative to the Frame-Based Technique for the Treatment of Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_sort frameless stereotactic radiosurgery, a feasible alternative to the frame-based technique for the treatment of refractory trigeminal neuralgia
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27186453
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.571
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