Orgasmic headache with transient basilar artery vasospasm

Headache

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 710-712

  Schlegel, Daniel ^a   Cucchiara, Brett ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Headache; Orgasm; Sex; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; ORGASM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGASM; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 3142676459     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2004.04131.x     Document Type: Article

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