{"title":"Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Facial Pain Using Conventional Devices: Indications and Results.","authors":"Christopher J Winfree","doi":"10.1159/000509574","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trigeminal branch stimulation is a type of peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) used to treat a variety of craniofacial pain disorders. Common indications include trigeminal neuralgia, trigeminal neuropathic pain, trigeminal deafferentation pain, trigeminal postherpetic neuralgia, supraorbital neuralgia, and migraine headaches. Supraorbital and infraorbital arrays are the most common electrode configurations, although preauricular, mandibular branch, and subcutaneous peripheral nerve field stimulation arrays have also been described. Trigeminal branch stimulation may be used as a stand-alone neuromodulation therapy or it may be combined with occipital nerve, sphenopalatine ganglion, or Gasserian ganglion stimulation to treat more complex pain patterns. Consistent with other forms of PNS, trigeminal branch stimulation is a minimally invasive, safe, and straightforward method of treating medically refractory neuropathic pain.</p>","PeriodicalId":39342,"journal":{"name":"Progress in neurological surgery","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Progress in neurological surgery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000509574","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2020/7/17 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Trigeminal branch stimulation is a type of peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) used to treat a variety of craniofacial pain disorders. Common indications include trigeminal neuralgia, trigeminal neuropathic pain, trigeminal deafferentation pain, trigeminal postherpetic neuralgia, supraorbital neuralgia, and migraine headaches. Supraorbital and infraorbital arrays are the most common electrode configurations, although preauricular, mandibular branch, and subcutaneous peripheral nerve field stimulation arrays have also been described. Trigeminal branch stimulation may be used as a stand-alone neuromodulation therapy or it may be combined with occipital nerve, sphenopalatine ganglion, or Gasserian ganglion stimulation to treat more complex pain patterns. Consistent with other forms of PNS, trigeminal branch stimulation is a minimally invasive, safe, and straightforward method of treating medically refractory neuropathic pain.
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Published since 1966, this series has become universally recognized as the most significant group of books serving neurological surgeons. Volumes feature contributions from distinguished international surgeons, who brilliantly review the literature from the perspective of their own personal experience. The result is a series of works providing critical distillations of developments of central importance to the theory and practice of neurological surgery.