CyberKnife targeting the pterygopalatine ganglion for the treatment of chronic cluster headaches

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Lad, Shivanand P ^a,b   Lipani, John D ^a   Gibbs, Iris C ^a   Chang, Steven D ^a   Adler, John R ^a   Henderson, Jaimie M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster headache; CyberKnife; Neurosurgery; Pterygopalatine; Radiosurgery; Sphenopalatine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYBER KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GANGLION BLOCK; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGOPALATINE GANGLION BLOCK; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; RHINORRHEA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SYMPTOM;

CLUSTER HEADACHE; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847422228     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255348.33582.DE     Document Type: Article

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