Histamine inhalation is a specific but insensitive laboratory test for migraine

Cephalalgia

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 550-553

  Lassen, L H ^a,b   Heinig, J H ^a   Oestergaard, S ^b   Olesen, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

diagnostic test; histamine inhalation; migraine

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MIGRAINE; PROVOCATION TEST; VERTIGO;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030471447     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1996.1608550.x     Document Type: Article

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