A method for bulbospinal trigeminal nucleotomy in the treatment of facial deafferentation pain.
Many types of facial pain are difficult to treat, such as postherpetic, posttraumatic, or pain following denervation procedures used in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia (anesthesia dolorosa), all of which involve deafferentation of the spinal trigeminal nucleus.
D004564:Electrocoagulation; D006562:Herpes Zoster / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D061221:Trigeminal Nerve Injuries; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000601:surgery*; D014279:Trigeminal Nucleus, Spinal / Q000601:surgery*