Gamma Knife Surgery For Trigeminal Neuralgia

ISBN-13: 9786202798891 / Angielski

Abd Al-Ameer Jasim Al-Khafaji; Ahmed Maan Taha

Opis

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a radiation technique that uses stereotaxis, multiple vantage points, and imaging technology to converge a high dose of radiation on a precisely defined target volume while minimizing irradiation to surrounding tissue.Trigeminal neuralgia treated by gamma knife radiosurgery with targeting the cisternal (retrogassarian) segment of trigeminal nerve with no harm to the brain stem being better in pain control.

O autorze

Al-Khafaji, Abd Al-Ameer Jasim Neurosurgeon consultant since 1994 and Professormember in American Congress of Neurosurgeonand European society of neurosurgery. More than 40 articles of neurosurgery, supervisor for 30 thesis in neurosurgery, prof in Al-Nahrain medical collegehead of Iraqi Board of Neurosurgery.