[Approach to the maxillary sinus, the peterygopalatofossa for resecting maxillary nerve under the endoscopy].

OBJECTIVE

This paper presents a method for treating maxillary neuralgia, the second division of trigeminal nerve, in the weak aged.

METHOD: Thirty-nine cases with forty trigeminal neuralgia were treated from 1996 to 2001. All patients were treated through the maxillary sinus, the peterygopalatofossa for resecting maxillary nerve with endoscopic surgery.

RESULT: The pain of all patients was relieved after operation and no recurrence of neuralgia was occurred in more than 2-years follow-up.

CONCLUSION

This method had the advantages of avoiding to operate craniotomy, no complications, performing easily and the ideal treatments remained.