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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-01-01
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| Series: | NeuroImage: Clinical |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158217301481 |