Predicting pain relief: Use of pre-surgical trigeminal nerve diffusion metrics in trigeminal neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a chronic neuropathic facial pain disorder that commonly responds to surgery. A proportion of patients, however, do not benefit and suffer ongoing pain. There are currently no imaging tools that permit the prediction of treatment response. To address this paucity, we use...

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Main Authors: Peter S.-P. Hung, David Q. Chen, Karen D. Davis, Jidan Zhong, Mojgan Hodaie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:NeuroImage: Clinical
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158217301481