Ultra-early Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia (URGEnt-TN): study protocol for a single-center, two-arm, parallel group design, pragmatic, noninferiority, phase II, randomized controlled trial with intention-to-treat analysis for pre-refractory GK-SRS in classical or idiopathic TN
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- 4 December 2025
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- Published by Springer Nature in Trials
- Vol. 27 (1)
Abstract
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a chronic, often debilitating neuropathic facial pain condition. First-line treatment is medical therapy, with carbamazepine (Keywords
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