Motor cortex stimulation for refractory demyelinating disease-associated trigeminal neuralgia

• Egile Nagusiak: Marcelo D Mendonça (Egilea), Alexandra Seromenho-Santos (Egilea), André Caetano (Egilea), Carla Reizinho (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: SAGE Publishing, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Patients with demyelinating diseases (DDs) such as multiple sclerosis have a 20-fold higher risk of developing trigeminal neuralgia (TN). DD-related TN is more frequently refractory to the usual medical and surgical treatment. We report the case of a 57-year-old man presenting to our neurology outpa...