| Literature DB >> 23322665 |
F Luo1, L Meng, T Wang, X Yu, Y Shen, N Ji.
Abstract
We retrospectively analyzed the reasons for ineffective pain relief in patients with idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) who had undergone pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment guided by computed tomography scan. We found that intraoperative PRF output voltage and electrical field intensity was significantly higher (p < 0.05) in the group who had received effective treatment than in the ineffective group. These findings suggest that optimizing PRF parameters and increasing the intraoperative output voltage (electric field intensity) may therefore, provide better pain relief in patients with TN.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23322665 DOI: 10.1002/j.1532-2149.2012.00278.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Pain ISSN: 1090-3801 Impact factor: 3.931