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What procedures or surgeries are there to treat trigeminal neuralgia?
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Multiple: The most common procedures performed for trigeminal neuralgia are gamma knife radiation to the ganglion region, percutaneous rhizotomy with electrical current, and decompression surgery. Other treatments are used but these are some of the most common.
Answered 6/10/2012
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Multiple: Surgeries to treat tn can be divided into: 1 - surgeries which damage the nerve 2 - decompression of the nerve nerve damaging procedures include: a - gamma knife radiosurgery b - "burning the nerve" with a radiofrequency pulse c - "crunching the nerve" with a balloon decompression surgery includes microvascular decompression (mvd). The type of surgery that is best depends on your history.
Answered 2/9/2015
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