Proposed Operation for Occipital Neuralgia: C-2 and C-3 Root Decompression
1983; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 12; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1227/00006123-198302000-00017
ISSN1524-4040
Autores Tópico(s)Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation
ResumoAbstract The common association of occipital neuralgia with post-traumatic cervical arthritis raises the question of whether some cases of occipital neuralgia are due to delayed C-2 or C-3 root entrapment. This hypothesis led to surgical exploration of the C-3 and C-2 roots in a young patient with post-traumatic arthritic occipital neuralgia. The abnormal operative findings and resolution of the neuralgia after C-3 foraminal and C-2 fascial root decompression lead to the tentative proposal that some cases of occipital neuralgia represent a root entrapment syndrome amenable to neurosurgical decompression.
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