Peripheral neuromodulation for the treatment of refractory trigeminal neuralgia

Trigeminal neuralgia is a type of orofacial pain that is diagnosed in 150,000 individuals each year, with an incidence of 12.6 per 100,000 person-years and a prevalence of 155 cases per 1,000,000 in the United States. Trigeminal neuralgia pain is characterized by sudden, severe, brief, stabbing or l...

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Main Authors: Naum Shaparin, Karina Gritsenko, Diego Fernandez Garcia-Roves, Ushma Shah, Todd Schultz, Oscar DeLeon-Casasola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/482652