Sumatriptan in patients with postdural puncture headache

Headache

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 316-319

  Connelly, Neil Roy ^a   Parker, Robert K ^a   Rahimi, Armin ^a   Gibson, Charles S ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dural puncture headache; Epidural; Epidural blood patch; Sumatriptan

Indexed keywords

SUMATRIPTAN;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SUMATRIPTAN;

EID: 0033998459     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.2000.00047.x     Document Type: Article

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