Impact of preoperative medical management on postoperative outcomes after index percutaneous rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia
While early neurosurgical referral is valuable for discussing treatment options, the authors' findings suggest that prolonged medication use does not diminish the effectiveness of rhizotomy in relieving TN symptoms.
Authors
- Risheng Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4288-1232)
- Michael Lim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0523-3076)
- Megan Parker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1096-9662)
- Saket Myneni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9484-2617)
- Sumil K. Nair (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9937-7478)
- Sina Ahmadi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7553-8206)
- Christopher M. Jackson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5958-2004)
- Judy Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0675-1935)
- Divyaansh Raj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7249-0200)
- Melanie Alfonzo Horowitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4935-7268)
- Anita Kalluri
- Yuanxuan Xia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-8392)
- Chetan Bettegowda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9991-7123)
- Praneethkumar Madhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3923-2725)
- Sai Chandan Reddy
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurosurgical FOCUS
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3171/2025.6.focus25173
- Primary Topic
- Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00