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Volume 4 Issue 1 (January - February, 2016)

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MANAGEMENT OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA WITH PERIPHERAL GLYCEROL INJECTION: A CLINICAL STUDY
Santosh B S, Shivamurthy DM, Sachin B Mangalekar, Thippeswamy SH, Raghavendra Shetty, Johar Rajvinder Singh

Trigeminal Neuralgia is a painful condition of the oro-facial structures. Patients experience dull, aching, throbbing or burning, constant pain in the same distribution as the paroxysms. In this study we evaluated the effectiveness of peripheral glycerol injections for the management of trigeminal neuralgia. The study included sixty patients clinically diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. Out of sixty patients, 30 patients were treated with 1ml of peripheral glycerol injections in involved nerve and thirty patients (control) were given normal saline.  All the patients (30) in the control group (normal saline) had no pain relief.  30 patients who were treated with 1ml of peripheral glycerol injections showed significant results. There were no significant complications reported after the glycerol injections.
Key words: Peripheral glycerol injections, trigeminal neuralgia, control.

 
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