title: Morphologic study of foramen oval region on surgery approach for trigeminal neuralgia.
abstract: Trigeminal neuralgia is a complex refractory neurologic disease. The foramen ovale puncture performs an important role in nerve anesthesia, balloon compression, focal gamma radiation, microvascular decompression, and radiofrequency nerve rhizotomy when the drug does not work. In this study, we provide some information about foramen oval region. Measuring the point at the distance of 2 cm beneath the zygomaxillare, which is close to the percutaneous insertion point and the center of foramen ovale and foramen spinosum separately, hoping to provide relatively accurate data for clinical treatment and avoiding some side injury of the puncture with computed tomography or x-ray navigation.
authors: From the *Department of the Human Anatomy, Norman Bethune College of Medicine, Jilin University; †Department of Ultrasound, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine; and ‡Department of Image, Sino-Japanese Fellowship Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
authors: Bitao
authors: B
authors: Zhu
authors: Huan
authors: H
authors: Wang
authors: Min
authors: M
authors: Liu
authors: Kailiang
authors: K
authors: Cheng
authors: Zheng
authors: Z
authors: Li
authors: Youqiong
authors: Y
authors: Li
mesh_terms: D002508:Cephalometry / Q000379:methods; D054085:Foramen Ovale / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D011677:Punctures; D012016:Reference Values; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*