title: [Approach to the maxillary sinus, the peterygopalatofossa for resecting maxillary nerve under the endoscopy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper presents a method for treating maxillary neuralgia, the second division of trigeminal nerve, in the weak aged.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-nine cases with forty trigeminal neuralgia were treated from 1996 to 2001. All patients were treated through the maxillary sinus, the peterygopalatofossa for resecting maxillary nerve with endoscopic surgery.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The pain of all patients was relieved after operation and no recurrence of neuralgia was occurred in more than 2-years follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This method had the advantages of avoiding to operate craniotomy, no complications, performing easily and the ideal treatments remained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Second Hospital of Dazhou, 635000, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qianlei
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Zhengjian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Sen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wanwu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ren
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008442:Maxillary Nerve / Q000601:surgery*; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000601:surgery*; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000601:surgery*