(n.) A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
(2) Acyclovir was shown to limit herpes simplex reactivation in a controlled trial to prevent herpes labialis after surgical intervention for trigeminal neuralgia.
(3) Because of the inherent limitations of computed tomography in the visualization of posterior fossa structures, MR imaging should be considered the initial screening procedure in the assessment of patients with trigeminal neuralgia.
(4) Evaluation of data leads to the following conclusions: In case of neuralgia in the V1 and V2 divisions, corneal sensitivity may decrease without any clinical manifestation.
(5) In four of five patients with other forms of neuralgia, the procedure did not relieve pain; the fifth patient experienced significant relief from pain due to carcinoma of the mandible.
(6) The authors describe the neurosurgical techniques currently available for the treatment of essential trigeminal neuralgia refractory to the usual medical treatments.
(7) The risk of developing post-herpetic neuralgia is related to the degree of residual scarring.
(8) However, when the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve is affected, the ocular disease (ophthalmic zoster), although also usually mild and self-limited, may have severe complications (corneal scarring, glaucoma, iris atrophy, posterior synechiae, scleritis, motor disturbances, optic neuritis, retinitis, anterior segment necrosis, and phthisis bulbi and servere postherpetic neuralgia).
(9) 140 patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia are evaluated.
(10) The authors deal with the psychological and psychopathological implications connected with cervicobrachial neuralgia and low-back pain.
(11) This report evaluates the effect of meridian acupuncture treatment on trigeminal neuralgia.
(12) A patient with trigeminal neuralgia caused by a tortuous vertebrobasilar artery is reported.
(13) Trigeminal neuralgia is most commonly idiopathic, although it can be associated with multiple sclerosis.
(14) Percutaneous retrogasserian glycerol rhizolysis was ineffective in relieving atypical trigeminal neuralgia or atypical facial pain.
(15) Trigeminal neuralgia is best treated by microvascular decompression.
(16) The treatment of trigeminal neuralgia by the minor percutaneous invasive procedures of selective thermal rhizotomy, glycerol injection, and balloon compression in the middle cranial fossa are compared with the open operations of compression in the middle fossa and MVD in the posterior fossa.
(17) The treatment effect of myeglynol may be related to its capacity to decrease to normal the high concentration of formaldehyde in the blood serum of patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia.
(18) Two of 29 were postherpetic and 27 were idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia.
(19) Pain is more often lateralised on the left, except in the case of trigeminal neuralgia.
(20) Headache and trigeminal neuralgia also disappeared.
Neurotomy
Definition:
(n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.
(n.) The division of a nerve, for the relief of neuralgia, or for other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Selective extrinsic neurotomy of either compartment abolished all responses.
(2) Thirteen Rana pipiens underwent unilateral sciatic neurotomy and were sacrificed weekly as long as 46 days.
(3) This target phenomenon and the contraction artefacts could be inhibited in the tenotomized muscles by simultaneous neurotomy or immobilization of the muscle with a plaster cast.
(4) The neurotomy and the nerve graft were repaired on one side by microsurgical suture technique using 10-0 nylon suture.
(5) The results were effective, with a 1 to 13 year follow-up (5 on average), in 89% of 47 Selective Peripheral Neurotomies of the tibial nerve for spastic foot, in 92% of 53 Selective Posterior Rhizotomies for paraplegia and in 87% of 23 Selective Posterior Rhizotomies for hemiplegia.
(6) Brief hyperoxic tests induced transient decreases in tidal volume and increases in end-tidal CO2 pressure which were significantly larger at 40 degrees C than at 37 degrees C. These changes disappeared after bilateral carotid neurotomy.
(7) Effect of 1,25(OH)2(Me)2D3 on osteopenia in rats induced by ovariectomy and right sciatic neurotomy was higher than that of 1,25(OH)2D3.
(8) Various surgical therapeutic procedures have been described, including neurotomy of the glossopharyngeal nerve in the frontal neck, thermocoagulation of Andersch's ganglion, and para-pontine neurotomy (Dandy).
(9) In the animals with one of these neurotomies plus contralateral ovariectomy, the fertility increased to 100%.
(10) The effects of a 3-week treatment with the nonsteroidal "antiestrogen" tamoxifen were determined on cortical and trabecular bone mass of the tibiae of growing male rats that had undergone unilateral sciatic neurotomy (USN).
(11) The cases with ovarian neurotomy and contralateral ovariectomy exhibited a greater number of implantations in the uterine horn on the side of the neurotomy as compared with the control rats.
(12) This paper deals with the long term results of Selective Peripheral Neurotomies of the Tibial Nerve and Selective Posterior Rhizotomies in the Dorsal Root Entry Zone, in 123 patients with spastic disorders localized to the limbs.
(13) Major radioactive peaks in axonal endings of the proximal stump 18 h after neurotomy, identified by autoradiography of microelectrophoregrams, had apparent molecular weights of 52,000d, 41,000d and 18,000d.
(14) The effect of anhydrous glycerol on both spontaneous firing from the neuroma and impulse propagation within the nerve was examined in 11 rats that had undergone saphenous neurotomy 7 days previously.
(15) Nerve sections were performed by two methods: 1) bilateral SLN-s, RLN-s and cervical vagal neurotomy (horizontal method); 2) right-sided neurotomies of SLN, RLN and vagus followed by left-sided neurotomies of these nerves (vertical method).
(16) In the sciatic neurotomy group of rats, neither trabecular number nor width significantly changed at 12 weeks after surgery.
(17) To investigate the effects of trigeminal denervation on the corneal epithelium, left postganglionic trigeminal neurotomy via intracranial approach was performed in 22 rabbits.
(18) All subjects underwent vestibular neurotomy via the retro-sigmoid approach.
(19) These results suggest that following pancreatic neurotomy, the potential for pancreatic regeneration continues over a longer period after major pancreatectomy.
(20) Bone atrophy induced by immobilization through sciatic and femoral neurotomy and that induced by isograft transplantation were thus shown to differ.