Four patients with painful tic convulsive and a brief review of surgical treatment.

J Clin Neurosci

Department of Neurosurgery, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, 107 Weihua Xi Road, Ji'nan, Shandong Province 250012, China.

Published: May 2012

We present four patients with unusual painful tic convulsive: three were due to neurovascular compression; one was secondary to a cerebellopontine angle epidermoid cyst. We discuss these patients and those in the literature to determine the appropriate therapy for this rare disease.

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