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Since Sweet’s proposal in 1969 16 of using radiofrequency (RF) current heating to coagulate trigeminal retroganglionar fibers for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, quite a few reports 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 have been published confirming the success of such a surgical technique.
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Broggi, G., Siegfried, J. (1977). The Effect of Graded Thermocoagulation on Trigeminal Evoked Potentials in the Cat. In: Gillingham, F.J., Hitchcock, E.R. (eds) Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 2. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 24. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8482-0_23
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