Occipital (Arnold) neuralgia secondary to greater occipital nerve schwannoma

Headache

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 804-807

  Ballesteros Del Rio, Beatriz ^a   Ares Luque, Adrian ^a   Tejada Garcia, Javier ^a   Muela Molinero, Alberto ^a  

^a Gerencia Regional de Salud de Castilla y León   (Spain)

Author keywords

Greater occipital nerve; Neurinoma; Occipital neuralgia; Schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARNOLD NERVE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE; FEMALE; GREATER OCCIPITAL NERVE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NEURALGIA; NEURILEMOMA; NEURINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; NEURILEMMOMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 0041526921     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.2003.03142.x     Document Type: Article

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