Trigeminal Neuralgia - Hardcover

Rovit, Richard L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0683073931 ISBN 13: 9780683073935

Publisher: Williams & Wilkins, 1990

About this title

About the Author

Peter J. Jannetta, MD is a world-renowned neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of cranial nerve disorders. He is former Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where he served for 29 years. He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery at Allegheny General Hospital. He is recognized foremost for his groundbreaking research into the pathology and treatment of cranial nerve compression syndromes such as the development of a microvascular decompression procedure that now offers patients an effective therapeutic alternative when medications fail when confronted with these syndromes. This procedure is now called the "Jannetta Procedure."

Review

"...this is a superb book edited by one of the masters in this area with contributions by many experts but with the master's hand evident throughout. It should be of wide interest to clinicians, and clinical and basic researchers in facial pain but also to those interested in neuropathic pain generally, and to some patients and their relatives. It is practical but also stimulates thought regarding the singularity of this neuropathic condition with the particular efficacy of the specific sodium channel blocker carbamazepine and marked initial efficacy of a variety of surgical options. I highly recommend this small reasonably priced volume." -- C. Peter N. Watson, MD FRCPC University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Pain Research & Management

Edition details

• Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0683073931
• ISBN 13: 9780683073935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288