Abstract Tofilon, PJ and Fike, JR The Radioresponse of the Central Nervous System: A
Dynamic Process. Radiation continues to be a major treatment modality for tumors located�…

Surgical approaches to pain management are performed when medication cannot control
pain or patients cannot tolerate the adverse effects of the medication. Microvascular�…

Object. Each year a greater number of patients with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) undergo
radiosurgery, including a large number of patients who are candidates for microvascular�…

Object Stereotactic radiosurgery is an alternative to conventional surgery for the treatment of
trigeminal neuralgia. The authors conducted a prospective evaluation of the safety and�…

Object. Microvascular decompression (MVD) and percutaneous ablation surgery have
historically been the treatments of choice for medically refractory trigeminal neuralgia (TN)�…

OBJECTIVE: Stereotactic radiosurgery is being used with more frequency in the
management of patients with trigeminal neuralgia. To improve facial pain outcomes, many�…

OBJECTIVE: Drug-resistant epilepsy associated with hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) can
be cured by microsurgical resection of the lesions. Morbidity and mortality rates for�…

OBJECTIVE: Stereotactic radiosurgical treatment of the proximal trigeminal nerve is used to
relieve the pain of trigeminal neuralgia. The mechanism of the radiosurgical effect is not�…

Object. Gamma knife surgery (GKS) has emerged as a suitable treatment of
pharmacologically resistant idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia. The optimal radiation dose and�…

BACKGROUND: Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) has been reported to be an effective
modality to treat trigeminal neuralgia. OBJECTIVE: To determine predictive factors for the�…