Headache related to brain tumors

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-32

  Loghin, Monica ^b   Levin, Victor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; CISPLATIN; CODEINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIHYDROMORPHINE; ETOPOSIDE; FENTANYL; GLUCOCORTICOID; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYDROCODONE; HYDROMORPHONE; HYDROXYUREA; MANNITOL; METHOTREXATE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PREDNISONE; SUCRALFATE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; THALIDOMIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG HALF LIFE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LETHARGY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; METASTASIS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NECK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; STOMACH DISEASE; SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATION; TENSION HEADACHE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 29944440090     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-996-0021-y     Document Type: Review

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