Peripheral Neurectomy under Local Anesthesia-Case Report

Peripheral neurectomy is a simple and effective method of procedure widely performed throughout the world for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. At the acute conditions of pain, we have an case who had underwent an peripheral neurectomy on the affected left side of the face. He had a history of pain particularly in the evening and morning session for the past 6 months and patient reported to the department with a unshaved face on both right and left side of the face. There is a severe lancinating type of pain that occurs on particular triggering points and patient was not affordable. So, neurectomy was planned for the patient and treatment was done under local Anesthesia with adrenaline. Neuralgia is severe pain along the course of a nerve. The pain occurs because of a change in structure or function due to irritation or damage of a nerve. Neurectomy has been reported as a successful treatment by many surgeons for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.