Microvascular decompression is the first choice for treating the primary
trigeminal neuralgia to provide the most extended duration of pain freedom.
However, in microvascular decompression, we found that this kind of operation is
only suitable for some patients. It is of great value to objectively judge the
function and abnormality of the trigeminal pain conduction pathway in guiding the
operation process. This brief report investigates the value of pain evoked
potential by electrical stimulation and noceciptive blink reflex in trigeminal
neuralgia. We detected the pain evoked potential in 34 patients with trigeminal
neuralgia and 48 healthy controls treated by electrical stimulation and blink
reflex. We demonstrated no significant differences in the latencies of V
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The diagnostic value of pain evoked potential by electrical stimulation combined with noceciptive blink reflex in trigeminal neuralgia
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Department of Functional Neurosurgery, Sanbo Brain Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100093 Beijing, China
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Department of Neurology, Sanbo Brain Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100093 Beijing, China
*Correspondence: luangm@ccmu.edu.cn (Guoming Luan)
J. Integr. Neurosci. 2021, 20(2), 425–429;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.jin2002044
Submitted: 22 February 2021 | Revised: 9 March 2021 | Accepted: 12 April 2021 | Published: 30 June 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Keywords
Trigeminal neuralgia
Electrical stimulation
Pain evoked potential
Noceciptive blink reflex
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