Computed tomography-guided percutaneous trigeminal tractotomy-nucleotomy

Kanpolat Y., KAHILOĞULLARI G., UĞUR H. Ç., ELHAN A. H.

NEUROSURGERY, vol.63, no.1, pp.147-153, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 63 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Doi Number: 10.1227/neu.0000320139.27501.69
  • Journal Name: NEUROSURGERY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.147-153
  • Keywords: central pain, facial pain, nociceptive pain, trigeminal tractus-nucleus, ROOT ENTRY ZONE, STEREOTACTIC MESENCEPHALIC TRACTOTOMY, FACIAL-PAIN, CAUDALIS DREZ, NEURALGIA, GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL, MANAGEMENT, SPASTICITY
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The destruction of the descending trigeminal tractus in the medulla is known as trigeminal tractotomy (TR), whereas the lesioning of the nucleus caudalis is known as trigeminal nucleotomy (NC). Trigeminal TR and/or NC procedures can be used in a large group of pain syndromes, such as glossopharyngeal, vagal, and genic-ulate neuralgias, atypical facial pain, craniofacial cancer pain, postherpetic neuralgias, and atypical forms of trigeminal neuralgia.