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Predicting pain relief: Use of pre-surgical trigeminal nerve diffusion metrics in trigeminal neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a chronic neuropathic facial pain disorder that commonly responds to surgery. A proportion of patients, however, do not benefit and suffer ongoing pain. There are currently no imaging tools that permit the prediction of treatment response. To address this paucity, we use...

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Autores principales: Hung, Peter S.-P., Chen, David Q., Davis, Karen D., Zhong, Jidan, Hodaie, Mojgan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28702348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2017.06.017