Treatment of recurrent trigeminal neuralgia due to Teflon granuloma

Table 2 Frequency of Teflon granuloma (literature review) after microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia

Author	Total number of patients undergoing microvascular decompression	Patients with Teflon granuloma
Cho et al. [21]	376	4 (1.1%)
Premsagar et al. [22]	155	2 (1.3%)^a
Kureshi and Wilkins [23]	331	7 (2.1%)
Chen et al. [24]	89	5 (5.6%)^a
Matsushima et al. [25]	82	6 (7.3%)^a
Amador and Pollock [4]	186	7 (3.7%)
Capelle et al. (2010, this study)	200	3 (1.5%)^a

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