Effectiveness and safety of CyberKnife radiosurgery in treatment of trigeminalgia - experiences of Polish neurological and oncological centres.

CONCLUSIONS: CyberKnife radiotherapy is characterised by high efficacy in 80% of patients with trigeminalgia, minimal invasiveness, and subsiding mild side effects. Radioablation of nerve V root in patients with neuralgia allows us to entirely stop antiepileptic therapy or reduce its doses, which in turn reduces the risk of potential side effects. CyberKnife can be a therapeutic option in those patients who have been offered ineffective therapies, or treatments with limited efficacy, and/or in older patients with comorbidities. PMID: 31976542 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Neurol Neurochir Pol Source Type: research