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Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia

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Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is frequently used to treat medically intractable trigeminal neuralgia (TN), especially when microvascular decompression is not possible, or surgery is not wanted. Freedom of pain can be achieved in about 50% of patients and upto 67.7% of patients lasted treatment effect for 10 years without additional treatment. Higher dose resulted in better pain control, however more than 90Gy of radiation was related to higher complication rates. And complication rates were also related to the radiation affected to the brainstem. There are many considerations for target selection but still there are no definite consensus made.

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Cho, K.R. (2023). Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia. In: Park, K., Cho, K.R. (eds) Trigeminal Neuralgia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9171-4_21

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