Paroxysmal neuralgic upper cervical pain attacks: The lower syndrome of cluster headache

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 737-743

  Verslegers, W R G ^a   Pickut, B A ^b   De Deyn, P P ^b  

^a AZ Jan Palfijn ^*  (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cluster headache; Ergotamine; Lithium; Lower syndrome; Oxygen; Paroxysmal neck pain; Sumatriptan; Verapamil

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CODEINE PHOSPHATE; DIAZEPAM; ERGOTAMINE; ERGOTAMINE TARTRATE; FLUPENTIXOL; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYSERGIDE; NADOLOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXETORONE FUMARATE; PARACETAMOL; PHENYTOIN; PROPRANOLOL; SUMATRIPTAN; TILIDINE; TOPIRAMATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VERAPAMIL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECCHYMOSIS; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEURALGIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SKIN ATROPHY; STEREOTYPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERGOTAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; NEURALGIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SUMATRIPTAN; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 33751224469     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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