Letter to the Editor. Surgical treatment options for trigeminal neuralgia

Songshan ChaiZhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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Publication Date:
26 Aug 2022
Page Range:
294–295
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Volume 138: Issue 1
DOI link:
https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.6.JNS221342
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Volume 138: Issue 1 (Jan 2023)

in Journal of Neurosurgery

Figure from Ramos et al. (pp 95–103).

Contributor Notes

Correspondence Nanxiang Xiong: mozhuoxiong@163.com.

INCLUDE WHEN CITING Published online August 26, 2022; DOI: 10.3171/2022.6.JNS221342.

Disclosures The authors report no conflict of interest.

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