Patients with painful facial nerve disorder benefit from nonsurgical Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery

Patients with painful facial nerve disorder benefit from nonsurgical Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery

Neurology News & Neuroscience News from Medical News Today

Research by Beaumont Health System radiation oncologists and neurosurgeons found that symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia, or TN, a nerve disorder causing severe facial pain, were reduced in those treated with Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery. The results were published recently in the journal Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Original Article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/273311.php

Julio Pereira, MD

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