Options in treating trigeminal neuralgia: Experience with 195 patients

In the United States, idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) has an incidence rate of approximately 12 per 100,000 people. Fortunately, for about 75% of patients who suffer with this disease, the frequent lancinating pain with which they suffer can be controlled with medications alone [1,2]. The response to medical management is estimated at 80% initially, which declines to less than 50% over time. However, this still results in a large proportion of people who continue to experience ongoing painful symptoms.

Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - August 17, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Patrick W. Hitchon, Marshall Holland, Jennifer ARNP Noeller, Mark C. Smith, Toshio Moritani, Nivedita Jerath, Wenzhuan He Source Type: research