The likely etiology in many cases is vascular compression of the trigeminal nerve root entry zone, leading to focal demyelination and aberrant neural discharges. MRI may disclose neurovascular ...

Conventional MRI has insufficient sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing trigeminal nerve root entry zone impingement with confidence. While emerging imaging techniques are visualizing ...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is an intensely painful condition ... Most people will need to have an MRI to rule out either MS or a tumor as the cause. Some types of TN can be diagnosed by taking ...

The neurologist believed I had trigeminal neuralgia and suggested I have an MRI to confirm the diagnosis. He noted that a CT ...

Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia is a rare and excruciatingly ... Morton is considering a novel neurosurgical procedure – MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound. This innovative treatment presents a ...

Dr. Ashwin Viswanathan is a fellowship-trained expert in the neurosurgical treatment of pain. He is experienced with multiple techniques including stereotactic radiosurgery for treating trigeminal ...

The correlation between trigeminal nerve-root section and the appearance of vesicles is shown in Table 1, which summarizes data relative to operative procedure, postoperative herpes and virus and ...