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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Raposio, Edoardo
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description 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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spelling pubmed-94223062022-08-30 Surgical therapy of occipital (Arnold) neuralgia: A case series Raposio, Giorgio Raposio, Edoardo Ann Med Surg (Lond) 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 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. Elsevier 2022-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9422306/ /pubmed/36045775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104237 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_fullStr Surgical therapy of occipital (Arnold) neuralgia: A case series
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title_short Surgical therapy of occipital (Arnold) neuralgia: A case series
title_sort surgical therapy of occipital (arnold) neuralgia: a case series
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9422306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36045775
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