Features of medication overuse headache following overuse of different acute headache drugs

Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1011-1014

  Limmroth, V ^a   Katsarava, Z ^a   Fritsche, G ^a   Przywara, S ^a   Diener, Hans Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CAFFEINE; CODEINE; DIPYRONE; ERGOT ALKALOID; NARATRIPTAN; OPIATE; RIZATRIPTAN; SUMATRIPTAN; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG USE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0037044256     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.59.7.1011     Document Type: Article

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