“…Since his observation, approximately 34 studies of TN caused by vertebral and/or basilar artery compression have been published, usually in the form of case reports [12,16,18,19,20,21,22,23,25,26,27,28,29,31,57,58,59]. In most of them, the incidence of this anatomical condition ranges from 0 to 2.8% [7,13,57,60,61,62], with only 1 large series from Japan reporting a higher incidence (7.7%) [31]. Park et al [30] recently reported a percentage of 2% of the global population treated with GKS.…”