Glossopharyngeal neuralgia treated using stereotactic Gamma Knife radiosurgery

Effectiveness and safety of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for glossopharyngeal neuralgia.

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) is a rare disorder of the ninth cranial nerve characterized by severe paroxysmal pain affecting the ear, tongue, and throat. GPN can be associated with life-threatening issues such as cardiac arrhythmias, syncope, or malnutrition and weight loss from odynophagia. Though traditional treatment for GPN involves medical management at first and surgery for refractory...

Gamma knife radiosurgery for glossopharyngeal neuralgia: Marseille experience.

Purpose Although Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKR) is widely recognized as an effective and minimally invasive treatment for intractable trigeminal neuralgia, its role in glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) has not yet been determined. Methods Between January 2002 and February 2009, 7 patients with medically intractable GPN were treated using GKR. Indication for GKR was the presence of medically in...

Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia – A Review

Gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) evolved from the vision of Lars Leksell as a method of bloodless surgery for treating a wide variety of intracranial pathologies. Since the first GKRS procedure for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) in the early 1970s, thousands of medically refractory patients have been treated, with good results. GKRS has become a first-line treatment for medically refractory TN along ...

Stereotactic gamma knife radiosurgery in the treatment of brain metastases

Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery for radiation-induced meningiomas.

BACKGROUND Radiation-induced meningiomas present a unique clinical dilemma given the fact that patients with these tumors have often received a prior full course of radiotherapy. As such, traditional radiotherapy is limited by lifetime tissue tolerances to radiation, leaving surgery and radiosurgery as attractive treatment options. OBJECTIVES To ascertain the safety and efficacy of Gamma Knif...