Clinical study on the treatment of primary trigeminal neuralgia by robot-assisted percutaneous balloon compression.

Background: C-arm-guided percutaneous puncture balloon compression alone has risk factors of puncture failure, complications, and poor prognosis. Robot-assisted PBC can effectively increase the one-time puncture success rate and improve the safety of the procedure. However, evidence on the superiority of robot-assisted PBC over C-arm-guided PBC alone remains relatively limited.

Effects of polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair genes on glioma risk in a Chinese population.

We performed a case-control study to assess the relationship between six single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group F (XPF) on glioma risk in a Chinese population. The six SNPs were genotyped in 330 glioma cases and 652 cancer-free controls using a 384-well plate format on the Sequenom MassARRAY platform (Sequenom, San Diego, USA). Rs1800067 did not follow the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in the control group, and the genotype distributions differed significantly between the two groups for SNPs rs1800067 and rs2276466.