This report describes two patients with medically intractable post-traumatique trigeminal neuralgia, who underwent bipolar coagulation of the pars caudalis of the trigeminal spinal nucleus. Follow-up examination--36 months and 7 months, respectively, after the procedure-showed that the patients were free of pain.
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