Cluster headache as a manifestation of intracranial inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour: A case report with pathophysiological considerations

Cephalalgia

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 124-128

  Bigal, M E ^a   Rapoport, Alan M ^b,c   Camel, M ^d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR HEADACHE   (United States)

^d GREENWICH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Central sensitization; Inflammatory myofibroblastic pseudotumour; Posterior fossa brain tumour; Secondary cluster headache

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; ERGOTAMINE TARTRATE; INDOMETACIN; LITHIUM; MIRTAZAPINE; NEFAZODONE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOTUMOR;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER HEADACHE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, MUSCLE TISSUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037345218     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.2003.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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