Michael E Xie, Kyra Halbert-Elliott, Sumil K Nair, Jinwoo Jun, Bryan C Dong, Kathleen R Ran, Collin B Kilgore, Anita Kalluri, Vivek S Yedavalli, Christopher M Jackson, Michael Lim, Judy Huang, Chetan Bettegowda, Risheng Xu
OBJECTIVE: Recently, two scoring systems have been developed for predicting pain-free outcomes after microvascular decompression (MVD). Evaluation of these scores on large external datasets has been limited. In this study, the authors aimed to evaluate the performance of published MVD scoring systems in predicting pain-free outcome. METHODS: A total of 458 patients who underwent MVD for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) between 2007 and 2020 and had at least 6 months of follow-up were included in this study...
April 26, 2024: Journal of Neurosurgery