Robot-assisted percutaneous balloon compression for trigeminal neuralgia- preliminary experiences.

Journal: BMC neurology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to discuss the availability of robot-assisted percutaneous balloon compression (PBC) for trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and share our preliminary experiences.

Authors

  • Ning Li
    Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Center for Respiratory Medicine, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of School of Medicine, and International School of Medicine, International Institutes of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Yiwu, China.
  • Tao Sun
    Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Raritan, NJ, USA.
  • Bin Hu
    Department of Thoracic Surgery Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital Affiliated Capital Medical University Beijing China.
  • Kun Zhao
    Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology, Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering (Ministry of Education), Tianjin University Tianjin 300072 P. R. China kunzhao@tju.edu.cn.
  • Changming Zhang
    Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, No 58th, Zhongshan Er Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
  • Jinlong Liu
    Institute of Advanced Research, Infervision Medical Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, China.
  • Chao Yang
    Translational Institute for Cancer Pain, Chongming Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Health & Medicine Sciences (Xinhua Hospital Chongming Branch), Shanghai 202155, P. R. China.