Clinical guidelines of minimally invasive interventional therapy for trigeminal neuralgia (the first edition) / 中国介入影像与治疗学

ABSTRACT

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a common cerebral nerve disease. The common methods for treatment of TN include drugs, surgery and minimally invasive intervention. Minimally invasive techniques have been widely used in the treatment of TN for simple operation, definite curative effect, high safety and few postoperative complications, whereas there are diversities of technical levels in different areas. Through summarizing clinical experiences, referring to and absorbing new ideas reported from domestic and overseas in recent years, the clinical operational guidelines for minimally invasive interventional therapy for TN were compiled in this article, in order to standardize clinical treatment and improve therapeutic effect of TN.