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CSF neuron-specific enolase as a biomarker of neurovascular conflict severity in drug-resistant trigeminal neuralgia: a prospective study in patients submitted to microvascular decompression.
Abstract
Although neurovascular conflict (NVC) is the most widely accepted cause of trigeminal neuralgia (TN), few articles have analyzed molecular and biochemical mechanisms underlying TN. In the present study, we dosed neuron-specific enolase (NSE) on serum and CSF samples of 20 patients submitted to microvascular decompression (MVD) and correlated these findings with the type of NVC.