Amitriptyline is effective in chronic but not in episodic tension-type headache: Pathogenetic implications

Headache

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 453-457

  Cerbo, Rosanna ^a   Barbanti, Piero ^a   Fabbrini, Giovanni ^a   Pascali, Maria Paola ^a   Catarci, Teresa ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amitriptyline; Chronic tension type headache; Episodic tension type headache

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSION HEADACHE;

EID: 0031704453     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1998.3806453.x     Document Type: Article

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