AN OPERATION FOR THE CURE OF TIC DOULOUREUX

摘要: Steadily improved by many technical advances, the original intracranial attack on branches of trigeminal nerve, independently and almost simultaneously suggested Hartley 1 America Krause 2 Germany, has gradually evolved from a procedure questionable merit great danger into one safest most successful major surgical procedures. There are, indeed, few greater triumphs in history surgery, for obstacles at that early period cranial surgery must have seemed insuperable. But operation its approved form is still far perfect, largely because certain disturbances which follow wake. With belief these defects are now, large part, avoidable with no risk to life, another permanent cure tic douloureux proposed. Although been recognized as clinical entity centuries, relationship