Specific hypothalamic activation during a spontaneous cluster headache attack

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 516-517

  Sprenger, Till ^a   Boecker, H ^a   Tolle, T R ^a   Bussone, G ^b   May, A ^c   Leone, M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; CLUSTER HEADACHE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 1042299819     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.62.3.516     Document Type: Article

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