Orgasmic headache and middle cerebral artery dissection

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 693-694

  Szatmary, Z ^a   Boukobza, M ^a   Vahedi, K ^a   Stapf, C ^a   Houdart, E ^a   Bousser, M G ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PERINDOPRIL; PROPRANOLOL; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORGASM DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRAIN; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERINDOPRIL; PROPRANOLOL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646930135     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.082719     Document Type: Article

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