Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery

Table 2 Summary of the patients’ characteristics

From: Long-term follow-up of microvascular decompression for management of trigeminal neuralgia

	Number of cases	Percentage %
Total	21	100
Sex
Male	9	43%
Female	12	57%
Age
< 40	1	5%
40–60	17	81%
> 60	3	14%
Side
Right	10	48%
Left	11	52%
Location
V2	7	33%
V3	2	10%
V2 + V3	12	57%

Three of our patients had previous intervention in the form of radiofrequency ablation all of them with combined V2 and V3 affection, one had no improvement after RF and two had temporary improvement with recurrence of symptoms in less than a year

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