Table of Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1: History of Trigeminal Neuralgia
Ken Casey and Peter J. Jannetta
Chapter 2: Anatomy and Physiology
Ken Casey and Peter J. Jannetta
Chapter 3: Trigeminal Neuralgia, Typical and Atypical Symptoms
Peter J. Jannetta
Chapter 4: Medical Therapy, the Dentist's Perspective
George J. Hadeed and Peter J. Jannetta
Chapter 5: Face Pain in the Front Lines
David Halpert
Chapter 6: Current Medical Therapy
Jeffrey Cohen
Chapter 7: Differential Diagnosis, Look-alike Diseases, atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia
Mark E. Linskey and Peter J. Jannetta
Chapter 8: The Evaluation of the Preoperative Patient
Peter J. Jannetta and Ray Sekula
Chapter 9: Trigeminal Neuralgia, Current Operative Procedures: Overview
Toba Niazi, Paul A. House, and Ronald I. Apfelbaum
Chapter 10: Percutaneous Radiofrequency Rhizotomy
John M. Tew, Jr., Andrew Grande, and Chad Morgan
Chapter 11: Percutaneous Glycerol Rhizotomy
Douglas Kondziolka and L. Dade Lundsford
Chapter 12: Percutaneous Balloon Compression
Jeffrey A. Brown
Chapter 13: Stereotactic Focal Irradiation
Mark E. Linskey
Chapter 14: Microvascular Decompression
Peter J. Jannetta, Mark R. McLaughlin, and Raymond F. Sekula. Jr
Chapter 15: Microvascular Decompression and the Endoscope
Hae-Dong Jho, Diana HJ Jho, and David H. Jho
Chapter 16: Future Medical Therapy
Joanna M. Zakrzewska
Chapter 17: Introspective
Peter J. Jannetta
Index