Clinical Application of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Diagnosis and Prognosis of Hemifacial Spasm

Jin, Zhuoru; Li, Zhipeng

doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2020.08.049

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“…The development of neuroimaging techniques has greatly improved the detection of NVC, especially at the REZ level [38]. The decision as to whether MVD is required has been based on MRI and MRA, both of which can be used to determine if there is arterial compression and exclude the secondary causes of HFS before surgery [39]. Given that MVD is basically functional surgery, however, it is not common to recommend MVD for HFS patients without radiological NVC.…”

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Outcomes after Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm without Definite Radiological Neurovascular Compression at the Root Exit Zone

Jeon,

Kim,

Lee

et al. 2023

Life

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the outcome of microvascular decompression (MVD) in patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) who have no definite radiological neurovascular compression (NVC). Sixteen HFS patients without radiological NVC on preoperative MRI underwent MVD surgery. The symptoms were left-sided in fourteen (87.5%) and right-sided in two patients (12.5%). Intraoperatively, the most common vessel compressing the facial nerve was the AICA (8, 44.4%), followed by arterioles (5, 27.8%), veins (4, 22.2%), and the PICA (1, 5.6%). The most common compression site was the cisternal portion (13, 76.5%) of the facial nerve, followed by the REZ (4, 23.5%). One patient (6.3%) was found to have multiple NVC sites. Arachnoid type (7, 50%) was the most common compressive pattern, followed by perforator type (4, 28.6%), sandwich type (2, 14.3%), and loop type (1, 7.1%). A pure venous compression was seen in two patients, while a combined venous-arterial “sandwich” compression was detected in two patients. Symptom improvement was observed in all of the patients. Only one patient experienced recurrence after improvement. Based on our experience, MVD surgery can be effective for primary HFS patients with no definite radiological NVC. MVD can be considered if the patient shows typical HFS features, although NVC is not evident on MRI.

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Outcomes after Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm without Definite Radiological Neurovascular Compression at the Root Exit Zone

Jeon,

Kim,

Lee

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“…World Neurosurgery preferred to publish articles about HFS. For example, surgical management ( 33 ), Gamma Knife Surgery ( 34 ), diagnosis and prognosis ( 35 ), and other aspects of HFS. Acta Neurochirurgica and Journal of Neurosurgery were followed.…”

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Bibliometric analysis of studies on the treatment of hemifacial spasm

Fang

Wang

2022

Front. Neurol.

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ObjectiveHemifacial spasm (HFS) is a common neurological disorder of the brain, which is difficult to treat. Most patients are distracted by it and are unable to work or study normally, which seriously affects their physical and mental health. However, there are a few bibliometric studies on it. This paper searched the articles on HFS using a bibliometric approach.MethodArticles about HFS were retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database. We employed the Visualization of Similarities (VOS)viewer to analyze these publications.ResultsA total of 645 reviews or articles in English were retrieved from WoS. In this study, we found that the number of publications showed a rising trend and China is the most active in searching the treatment of HFS. About keywords, neurosciences and neurology was searched (422 times) keyword, followed by hemifacial spasm (420 times) and surgery (320 times). By assessing the organizations, Shanghai Jiao Tong University published the most papers (8.68%), followed by Sungkyunkwan University (3.26%) and Baylor College Medicine (2.64%). A total of 247 journals have delivered publications on the treatment of HFS, World Neurosurgery (44 papers) published the largest number of articles.ConclusionThe annual publications have increased with a fluctuating tendency. More researchers were taking an interest in HFS. This study helped us find out the hotspot and trend in research about facial spasm treatment.

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The Progress in Epidemiological, Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Hemifacial Spasm

Xiang,

Sui,

Jiang

et al. 2024

Heliyon

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Clinical Application of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Diagnosis and Prognosis of Hemifacial Spasm

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Outcomes after Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm without Definite Radiological Neurovascular Compression at the Root Exit Zone

Outcomes after Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm without Definite Radiological Neurovascular Compression at the Root Exit Zone

Bibliometric analysis of studies on the treatment of hemifacial spasm

The Progress in Epidemiological, Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Hemifacial Spasm

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