Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia by percutaneous injection of hot saline into the trigeminal cavum (meckel fossa)
- Author:
Xuan Truong Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
trigeminal neuralgia
- MeSH:
Trigeminal Neuralgia;
Administration, Cutaneous;
therapeutics;
Sodium Chloride
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2001;267(12):182-187
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
New method of treatment of trigeminal neuralgia by percutaneous injection of boiling saline into the cavum trigeminale in replacement of the former Frazier’s operation. 71 cases with aged of 20-80 in which 69 cases the territories of the 2nd and the 3rd division of the 5th nerve were involved. The technique of the procedure is described in detail. It did not require stereotactic facilities or X-rays control of the position of the needle during its introduction intothe Meckel’s cave through the Foramen Ovale. One or two injections of 2 ml of boiling saline were necessary for an instant relief of pain. The major complications, well accept by the patients were: hypoesthesia of the affected hemiface and motor hemiparalysis of muscles of mastication, but in a lot of patients they were improving or subsided with the passing of time
