Patients with painful facial nerve disorder benefit from nonsurgical Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery

Research by Beaumont Health System radiation oncologists and neurosurgeons found that symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia, or TN, a nerve disorder causing severe facial pain, were reduced in those treated with Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery. The results were published recently in the journal Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.TN is a disorder of the trigeminal nerve, which is responsible for feeling in the face. In most cases, the facial pain is caused by a blood vessel pressing on the nerve.

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