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Facial central pain is usually difficult to manage. Although stereotactic trigeminal nucleotomy is a valuable procedure, there is still a group of supra-caudalis origin, which is resistant to current techniques. For them, paraqueductal lesions offer an attractive approach.
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Schvarcz, J.R. (1977). Paraqueductal Mesencephalotomy for Facial Central Pain. 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_31
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