Table 1: Clinical preoperative features.
Clinical items | Size | Percentage (%) | |
---|---|---|---|
Laterality | Left | 18 | 42.85 |
Right | 21 | 50 | |
Bilateral | 3 | 7.14 | |
V2V3 | 22 | 52.38 | |
V2V1 | 3 | 7.14 | |
Topography | V2 | 11 | 26.2 |
V3 | 6 | 14.28 | |
> 10 | 5 | 11.9 | |
10 | 11 | 26.2 | |
Pain scale (on crisis) | 9 | 13 | 30.95 |
8 | 6 | 14.28 | |
Non Specified | 7 | 16.66 | |
6 | 17 | 40.47 | |
Pain scale (out of crisis) | 5 | 10 | 23.8 |
≤ 4 | 6 | 14.28 | |
Non Specified | 9 | 9 | |
Number of specific drugs used before | 1* | 9 | 21.42 |
2 | 21 | 50 | |
≥ 3 | 12 | 28.57 |
*Few patients were intolerants to specific drugs as Carbamazepine and the neuralgia were refractory to the substituent drug.