Background: Headache surgery is a well-established, viable option for patients with chronic
head pain/migraines refractory to conventional treatment modalities. These operations …

Background: Clinical experience with surgical decompression of specific peripheral nerves
in the head and neck for the relief of migraine headache symptoms has proven to be …

Background: Reports of a correlation between relief of migraine headaches and resection of
corrugator muscles or injection of botulinum A toxin have renewed interest in finding the …

Background: The auriculotemporal nerve has been identified as one of the peripheral trigger
sites for migraine headaches. However, its distal course is poorly mapped following …

The targets for the surgical treatment of temporal headaches are the zygomaticotemporal
branch of the trigeminal nerve and the auriculotemporal nerve. The former is often accessed …

Background: The auriculotemporal and zygomaticotemporal nerves are the 2 primary trigger
points in the temporal area of migraine headache. Different surgical approaches are …

This work addresses a topic that I believe to be the most interesting and potentially
revolutionary concept engaging plastic surgeons in the past 10 years. Specifically, it relates …

Background Literature from the last decade has shown a correlation between resection of
the forehead and/or occipital muscles and relief from migraine headaches. Methods The …

Background: The development of migraine headaches may involve the entrapment of
peripheral craniofacial nerves at specific sites. Cadaveric studies in the general population …

Background: Migraine headaches have been linked to compression, irritation, or entrapment
of peripheral nerves in the head and neck at muscular, fascial, and vascular sites. The …