Microvascular Decompression for a Patient with a Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia: A Technical Note
The glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) constitutes approximately 0.2-1.3% of all facial pain syndromes. The GPN is a syndrome of neuropathic pain characterized by paroxysmal pain episodes localized in the posterior tongue, tonsil, throat, or external ear canal. The first-line treatment is pharmacologi...
- Autores:
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Ordoñez Rubiano, Edgar Gerardo
García Chingaté, Cristian C.
Rodríguez Vargas, Saney
Cifuentes Lobelo, Hernando A.
Perilla Cepeda, Tito A.
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2017
- Institución:
- Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud - FUCS
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Digital Institucional ReDi
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.fucsalud.edu.co:001/1736
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.fucsalud.edu.co/handle/001/1736
- Palabra clave:
- Neuralgia
Microvascular decompression
Glossopharyngeal nerve diseases
Glossopharyngeal nerve
Cranial nerve injuries
Neurosurgery
Enfermedades del nervio glosofaríngeo
Descompresión microvascular
Traumatismos del nervio craneal
Neurocirugía
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
| Summary: | The glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) constitutes approximately 0.2-1.3% of all facial pain syndromes. The GPN is a syndrome of neuropathic pain characterized by paroxysmal pain episodes localized in the posterior tongue, tonsil, throat, or external ear canal. The first-line treatment is pharmacological. Patients who are refractory to medical therapy can be treated surgically with microvascular decompression (MVD) or sectioning the IX nerve and the upper rootlets of the X nerve. We aim to describe the technical nuances of MVD of the IX cranial nerve with a targeted inferior mini-craniotomy in a patient with a neurovascular compression. |
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