Headache and the lower cervical spine: Long-term, postoperative follow-up after decompressive neck surgery

Functional Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-28

  Fredriksen, Torbjørn A ^a   Stolt Nielsen, Andreas ^a,b   Skaanes, Karl Ove ^a   Sjaastad, Ottar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Ski Hospital   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cervicobrachialgia; Cervicogenic headache; Facetectomy; Smith Robinson procedure

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ERGOTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MIGRAINE; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEURITIS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038638030     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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