Medicolegal issues in cluster headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-156

  Loder, Elizabeth ^a   Loder, John ^b  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b Ropes and Gray LLP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERGOT DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM; MELATONIN; METHYSERGIDE; PREDNISONE; UBIDECARENONE; VASOACTIVE AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

AVASCULAR NECROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISABILITY; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; HEART BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LYMPHOMATOID PAPULOSIS; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOSIS; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; JURISPRUDENCE; UNITED STATES;

CLUSTER HEADACHE; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2342529006     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-004-0029-5     Document Type: Review

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