Surgical therapy of occipital (Arnold) neuralgia: A case series

OBJECTIVE: The idea to treat occipital neuralgia patients with a surgical procedure is relatively recent. The aim of this paper was to describe the surgical techniques and our 12-year experience in this field. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From June 2011 till February 2022 we have performed surgery over 23...

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Autores principales: Raposio, Giorgio, Raposio, Edoardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9422306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36045775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104237
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: The idea to treat occipital neuralgia patients with a surgical procedure is relatively recent. The aim of this paper was to describe the surgical techniques and our 12-year experience in this field. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From June 2011 till February 2022 we have performed surgery over 232 patients with occipital neuralgia. RESULTS: The surgical procedure elicited a positive response in 86% of the patients. CONCLUSIONS: The described techniques allowed to obtain an high rate of positive results with a minimum percentage of complications.

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