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ORLANDO, FLA. -- Using two targets on the trigeminal nerve during radiosurgery provides better intermediate-term pain relief of neuralgia than does the traditional method, according to data presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
In a study of 50 patients with trigeminal neuralgia, researchers compared two radiosurgery techniques using a gamma knife, which uses more than 200 collimated beams of gamma radiation that converge into a single beam that damages or destroys target tissue. The surrounding tissue receives a much lower dose of...
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