Microvascular Decompression Surgery

Editor Shi-Ting Li, MD, PhD and Jun Zhong, MD, PhD, are from the department of neurosurgery, XinHua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China. Editor Raymond F. Sekula, Jr., MD, MBA, Professor of Neurological Surgery and Director of Minimally Brain Surgery is from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA. Editor Marc Sindou, MD, DSc, DHC, is from University of Lyon, France.

The History of Microvascular Decompression Surgery.- Hypothesis of Cranial Nerve Hyperexcitability Disorders.- Microsurgical Anatomy for Microvascular Decompression Surgery.- A Surgical Strategy of MVD Process.- Pathogenesis and Treatment of Hemifacial Spasm.- A Novel Hypothesis on the Mechanism of Hemifacial Spasm.- Surgical treatment of masseter spasm.- Pathogenesis of Trigeminal Neuralgia.- Surgical Technique of Microvascular Decompression Surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia.- Surgical Techniques of Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm.- Microvascular Decompression Surgery for Disabling Positional Vertigo and Tinnitus.- Microvascular Decompression Surgery for Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia.- The Pragmatic Anatomy of Meckel’s cave and Working Mechanism of PBC.- A Headless Pear is Core to a Satisfactory Outcome of PBC .- MVD for Neurogenic Hypertension: A Review.- MVD for oculomotor nerve palsy.- Combined nerve transplantation for severe facial paralysis.- Extracranial neurolysis for sequelae of spastic facial paralysis.- Treatment of Vagoglossopharyngeal Neuralgia with MVD and Other Neurosurgical Procedures.- Intraoperative Monitoring.- Outcome Evaluation and Postoperative Management.- Reoperation for Hemifacial Spasm.- Perioperative Adverse Events of Microvascular Decompression.