The number and quality of microvascular decompression surgery for trigeminal neuralgia and facial spasm ranked first in the central and southern regions Yang Zhiquan, Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University According to a survey of the surgical volume of microvascular decompression surgery in neurosurgery centers in the central and southern regions, it was found that the number of microvascular decompression surgery in Xiangya Hospital has exceeded 400 cases in 2014 and is estimated to be more than 500 cases this year. The number and surgical results are ranked first in the central and southern regions. Professor Yang Zhiquan, director of the department, has become the most influential expert in the surgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia and facial muscle spasm in south-central China. Microvascular decompression is a kind of operation in a complex brain area. The operation itself is not difficult, but because the area of operation is around the brainstem (the brainstem is the most important and dangerous place in the brain), it is very easy to lead to serious consequences or even life threatening when there are surgical complications. Therefore, in many hospitals, they are afraid to continue this kind of surgery because serious complications have occurred. The director of Xiangya Hospital, Yang Zhiquan, studied under the national famous doctor, Professor Yuan Xianrui, and has a deep knowledge of microsurgery operation, and also studied at the University of Chicago Medical Center, the world’s seventh most famous university, plus has good medical ethics of wholeheartedly relieving patients’ pain and being humble, and has created a record of 1000 cases without surgical death, and this record is still going on. His excellent surgical results and very few surgical complications have won the praise and trust of the majority of patients, therefore, more and more patients from all over the world, including as far as Tibet and Taiyuan, Shanxi, are willing to seek Professor Yang Zhiguan for surgery.