Trigeminal neuralgia: A symptomatic study of 126 successive patients with and without previous interventions

REFERENCES

• White JC, Sweet WH, Pain and the Neurosurgeon. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL (1969).
   Google Scholar
• Rasmussen P, Facial Pain. IV. A prospective survey of 1052 patients with a view of: precipitating factors, associated symptoms, objective psychiatric and neurological symptoms, Acta Neurochir (Wien) 108, 100–9 (1991).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rushton JG, McDonald HNA, Trigeminal neuralgia. Special considerations of nonsur-gical treatment, J Am Med Ass 165, 437–40 (1957).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bond MR, Pilowsky I, The subjective assessment of pain and its relationship to the administration of analgesics in patients with advanced cancer, J Psychosomat Res 10, 203–7 (1966).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Melzack R, The McGill pain questionnaire: major properties and scoring methods, Pain 1, 277–99 (1975).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hampf G, Bowsher D, Wells C, Miles J, Sensory and autonomic measurements in idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia; differentiation from other causes of facial pain, Pain 40, 241–8 (1990).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris R, Griffin CJ, Fine structure of nerve endings in the human dental pulp, Archs Oral Biol 13, 773–8 (1968).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nurmikko T, Wells C, Bowsher D, Pain and allodynia in postherpetic neuralgia: role of somatic and sympathetic systems, Acta Neurol Scand 84, 146–52 (1991).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kugelberg E, Lindblom U, The mechanism of the pain in trigeminal neuralgia, J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 22, 36–43 (1959).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Merskey H (Ed.), Classification of chronic pain, Pain (Suppl) 3, 217 (1986).
   Google Scholar
• Bowsher D, Postherpetic neuralgia and its treatment: a retrospective survey of 191 patients, J Pain Sympt Man 12, 290–9 (1996).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bowsher D, Central pain: clinical and physiological characteristics, J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 61, 62–9 (1996).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leandri M, Campbell JA, Origin of early waves evoked by infraorbital nerve stimulation in man, EEG Clin Neurophysiol 65, 13–19 (1986).
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Cruccu G, Bowsher D, Intracranial stimulation of trigeminal nerve in man. II. Reflex responses, J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 49, 419–27 (1986).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crue BL, Shelder CH, Pudenz RH, Freshwater DB, Observations on the pain and trigger mechanism in trigeminal neuralgia, Neurol 6, 196–207 (1956).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bowsher D, Miles J, Haggett C, Eldridge P, Trigeminal neuralgia: a quantitative sensory perception threshold study in patients who had had no previous invasive procedures, J Neurosurg 86, 190–2 (1997).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hardy PAJ, Bowsher D, Contact thermography in idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia and other facial pains, Br J Neurosurg 3, 399–402 (1989).
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Nurmikko TJ, Altered cutaneous sensation in trigeminal neuralgia, Arch Neurol 48, 523–7 (1991).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dandy WE, Concerning cause of trigeminal neuralgia, Am J Surg 24, 447–455 (1934).
   Google Scholar
• Janetta PJ, Microsurgical approach to the trigeminal nerve for tic douloureux, Progr Neurol Surg 7, 180–200 (1976).
   Google Scholar
• Miles JB, Eldridge PR, Haggett CE, Bowsher D, Sensory effects of microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia, J Neurosurg 86, 193–6 (1997).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zakrzewska JM, TrigemMal Neuralgia. W. B. Saunders Co., London (1995).
   Google Scholar
• Zakrzewska JM, Jassim S, Bulman JS, A prospective, longitudinal study on patients with trigeminal neuralgia who underwent radiofrequency thermocoagulation of the Gasserian ganglion, Pain 79, 51–8 (1999).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barker II FG, Janetta PJ, Bissonette DJ et al., The long-term outcome of microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia, N Engl J Med 334, 1077–83 (1996).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bowsher D, Trigeminal neuralgia: an anatomically-oriented review, Clin Anat 10, 409–15 (1997).
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar