Table 4.

Demographic characteristics of 138 consecutive patients presenting with medically-intractable facial pain

Age (years)	20–94 (mean – 58)
Gender	95 women, 43 men
Side of pain	69 right, 63 left, 6 bilateral
Diagnosis
Trigeminal neuralgia type 1	47
Trigeminal neuralgia type 2 (Atypical TN)	24
Post-traumatic trigeminal neuropathic pain	11
Post-surgical deafferentation trigeminal pain	11
Post-stroke trigeminal pain	4
Symptomatic TN (multiple sclerosis)	8
Symptomatic TN (cerebellopontine lesions)	6
Other cranial nerve involvement	10
Cancer-related facial pain	2
Atypical facial pain	14
Initial procedure (after failure of medical management)
MVD	32
RF gangliolysis	28
Balloon compression	5
SRS	7
PNS	11
Neurectomy	4
MCS	3
Interventions on other nerves	9
No surgery	39