Surgical treatment of non-responsive cervicogenic headache

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 2 SUPPL. 19, 2000, Pages

  Jansen, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain stem afferences; Cervical nerve roots; Cervical spine; Degenerative diseases; Headache; Pathomorphology; Root compression

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GANGLIONECTOMY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; JOINT DEGENERATION; LAMINECTOMY; LAMINOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK PAIN; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL ROOT; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; GANGLIONECTOMY; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034029242     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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