Cluster headache: Diagnosis and treatment

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-140

  Rozen, Todd D ^a  

^a Michigan Head Pain/Neurol Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; ERGOT DERIVATIVE; ERGOTAMINE; GABAPENTIN; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MELATONIN; METHYSERGIDE; NARATRIPTAN; OXYGEN; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; SUMATRIPTAN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID; VERAPAMIL;

ANAMNESIS; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDEMA; FATIGUE; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACRIMATION; NAUSEA; NEUROSURGERY; NOSE CONGESTION; PHOTOPHOBIA; POLYURIA; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RHINORRHEA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREMOR; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VOMITING;

EID: 17044383426     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-005-0052-1     Document Type: Review

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