neurectomy

Indications

• chronic pain refractory to medical therapy
• vestibulary neurectomy is used to correct vertigo due to Meniere's disease

Procedure

• excision of a segment of peripheral nerve
• vestibulary neurectomy severs the vestibular nerve

More general terms

• neurosurgery

More specific terms

• neurectomy of cranial nerve
• neurectomy, foot
• neurectomy, hamstring
• neurectomy, popliteal/gastrocnemius
• resection of Morton's neuroma
• tympanic neurectomy