Table 3 Symptom outcome after gamma knife radiosurgery for trigeminal schwannomas.
From: Thirty-year clinical experience in gamma knife radiosurgery for trigeminal schwannomas
Symptoms | Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Improved | Stable | Worsened | ||
Facial pain | 6 (38%) | 8 (50%) | 2 (13%) | 16 |
Facial hypesthesia/paresthesia | 10 (31%) | 21 (66%) | 1 (3%) | 32 |
Cranial nerve palsy | 2 (29%) | 4 (57%) | 1 (14%) | 7 |
Total | 18 (33%) | 33 (60%) | 4 (7%) | 55 |