John R Adler, Regina Bower, Gaurav Gupta, Michael Lim, Allen Efron, Iris C Gibbs, Steven D Chang, Scott G Soltys
OBJECTIVE: Although stereotactic radiosurgery is an established procedure for treating trigeminal neuralgia (TN), the likelihood of a prompt and durable complete response is not assured. Moreover, the incidence of facial numbness remains a challenge. To address these limitations, a new, more anatomic radiosurgical procedure was developed that uses the CyberKnife (Accuray, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) to lesion an elongated segment of the retrogasserian cisternal portion of the trigeminal sensory root...
February 2009: Neurosurgery