Zentralblatt für Neurochirurgie
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Zentralbl. Neurochir. · Jan 1988
Crossed transvertebral puncture to block spinal ganglion in treatment of pain.
A simple and highly efficient percutaneous method eliminating the spinal ganglion and its posterior spinal cord root in treating metameric pain is described. Monitored by X-ray the needle crosses the vertebral canal passing e.g. from the right into the left intervertebral space. The intervention itself is made by a mesocaine alcohol block. The first experience with 12 patients is favourable in postdiscotomic syndromes or lumbar and causalgic pains in lower extremities having no mechanical cause discovered by CT.
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Zentralbl. Neurochir. · Jan 1988
[Results of electrocoagulation of Gasser's ganglion in 250 patients with idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia].
In 250 patients with tic doulourex an percutaneous radiofrequency coagulation of the gasserian ganglion has been performed. In 92.2% of the cases the patients were post-operatively painfree. ⋯ In these patients a pain recurrency was noted in 27%. On behalf of low invasivity of the procedure the radio-frequency coagulation of the gasserian ganglion is a recommendable operation with low risk and high efficiency especially in old patients.