Surgical Outcome and Improvement in Quality of Life after Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasms: A Case Series Assessment Using a Validated Disease-Specific Scale | Zendy

Dibyendu K. Ray | Zendy; Diaa Bahgat | Zendy; Shirley McCartney | Zendy; Kim J. Burchiel | Zendy

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Surgical Outcome and Improvement in Quality of Life after Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasms: A Case Series Assessment Using a Validated Disease-Specific Scale

Author(s) -

Dibyendu K. Ray,

Diaa Bahgat,

Shirley McCartney,

Kim J. Burchiel

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.798

H-Index - 63

eISSN - 1423-0372

pISSN - 1011-6125

DOI - 10.1159/000319883

Subject(s) - hemifacial spasm , medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , microvascular decompression , surgery , facial nerve , decompression , retrospective cohort study , trigeminal neuralgia , nursing

Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a movement disorder characterized by intermittent, involuntary clonic or tonic-clonic contractions of muscles innervated by the ipsilateral facial nerve. Recent studies have documented change in quality of life after HFS management with botulinum toxin injection. However, we failed to locate any study that documented change in quality of life after surgical management with retrosigmoid microvascular decompression (MVD).

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