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Case Reports
Microvascular Decompression for a Patient with a Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia: A Technical Note.
- Edgar Gerardo Ordónez-Rubiano, Cristian C García-Chingaté, Saney Rodríguez-Vargas, Hernando A Cifuentes-Lobelo, and Tito A Perilla-Cepeda.
- Neurosurgery Department, Fundación Universitaria De Ciencias De La Salud, Hospital de San Jose/Hospital Infantil Universitario de San José.
- Cureus. 2017 Jul 20; 9 (7): e1494.
AbstractThe glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) constitutes approximately 0.2-1.3% of all facial pain syndromes. The GPN is a syndrome of neuropathic pain characterized by paroxysmal pain episodes localized in the posterior tongue, tonsil, throat, or external ear canal. The first-line treatment is pharmacological. Patients who are refractory to medical therapy can be treated surgically with microvascular decompression (MVD) or sectioning the IX nerve and the upper rootlets of the X nerve. We aim to describe the technical nuances of MVD of the IX cranial nerve with a targeted inferior mini-craniotomy in a patient with a neurovascular compression.
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