Correlation of Prepontine Cisternal Space Thickness with the Severity of Neurovascular Conflict and its Role in Predicting Outcome of Medical Management in Cases of Trigeminal Neuralgia.

Background: Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a debilitating disorder that presents with sudden onset of severe, unilateral, paroxysmal, and lancinating pain usually lasting for few seconds to few minutes.

Aims And Objectives: The main aim of our study was to correlate the prepontine cisternal space thickness, with a severity of neurovascular compression (NVC) and percentage reduction of pain (patient outcome).

Materials And Methods: Ours is an observational prospective study of 40 patients presenting with TN for magnetic resonance imaging in our department.

Correlation of Trigeminopontine Angle with Severity of Trigeminal Neuralgia due to Neurovascular Conflict over Medial Aspect of Nerve: Can We Prognosticate the Reduction in Pain in Patients on Medical Management?

 Neurovascular conflicts (NVCs) are one of the major causative factors in patients presenting with trigeminal neuralgia (TN). We found a wide range of variation in degrees of acute angle formed between medial border of trigeminal nerve and anterior border of pons in patients with TN, i.e.