[Approach to the maxillary sinus, the peterygopalatofossa for resecting maxillary nerve under the endoscopy].
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.
Zhang
Hong
H
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Second Hospital of Dazhou, 635000, China.
Zhang
Qianlei
Q
Wei
Yun
Y
Zhang
Zhengjian
Z
Li
Sen
S
Ren
Wanwu
W
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*