Long-term outcomes of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia patients with or without concomitant continuous pain
Guijiang Dong, Quanqing Li, Jin Sun, E. Chen, Xiaoning Lin, Junjiang Tong, Hongjin Chen, Xiang Yao, Hongbo Wang, Xinhua Tian · 2024
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Description
Guijiang Dong, Quanqing Li, and their co-authors report long term results of focused radiation surgery for facial nerve pain. Their 2024 study compares patients whose pain never fully stops with those whose pain comes in attacks. All were treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery as the first surgical step at their center, from 2019 to 2024.
Records held 46 patients with constant background pain and 112 without it. Outcomes were graded on a standard scale from excellent to poor. Early poor outcome rates were alike in the two groups, at about sixteen and fourteen percent. The team then tracked later outcomes and complications. Regression models searched for what predicts poor results.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Guijiang Dong, Quanqing Li, Jin Sun, E. Chen, Xiaoning Lin, Junjiang Tong, Hongjin Chen, Xiang Yao, Hongbo Wang, Xinhua Tian |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |