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Publicación Acceso abierto Microvascular Decompression for a Patient with a Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia: A Technical Note(Palo Alto, CA: Cureus, Inc., 2017-07-20) Ordoñez Rubiano, Edgar Gerardo; García Chingaté, Cristian C.; Rodríguez Vargas, Saney; Cifuentes Lobelo, Hernando A.; Perilla Cepeda, Tito A.The glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) constitutes approximately 0.2-1.3% of all facial pain syndromes. The GPN is a syndrome of neuropathic pain characterized by paroxysmal pain episodes localized in the posterior tongue, tonsil, throat, or external ear canal. The first-line treatment is pharmacological. Patients who are refractory to medical therapy can be treated surgically with microvascular decompression (MVD) or sectioning the IX nerve and the upper rootlets of the X nerve. We aim to describe the technical nuances of MVD of the IX cranial nerve with a targeted inferior mini-craniotomy in a patient with a neurovascular compression.