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Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Case Study Open Access Perioperative and long-term operative outcomes after surgery for trigeminal neuralgia: microvascular decompression vs percutaneous balloon ablation 1 2 1 2 W Scott Jellish* , William Benedict , Kevin Owen , Douglas Anderson , 1 2 Elaine Fluder and John F Shea Address: 1Department of Anesthesiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA and 2Department of Neurosurgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA Email: W Scott Jellish* - wjellis@; William Benedict - wbenedi@; Kevin Owen - kkowen3@; Douglas Anderson - dander1@; Elaine Fluder - efluder@; John F Shea - jshea3@ * Corresponding author Published: 2 July 2008 Received: 27 February 2008 Accepted: 2 July 2008 Head Face Medicine 2008, 4:11 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-4-11 This article is available from: /content/4/1/11 © 2008 Jellish et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objectives: Numerous medical and surgical therapies have been utilized to treat the symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia (TN). This retrospective study compares patients undergoing either microvascular decom