Treatment of medically intractable cluster headache by occipital nerve stimulation: long-term follow-up of eight patients

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9567, 2007, Pages 1099-1106

  Burns, Brian ^a   Watkins, Laurence ^a   Goadsby, Peter J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 33847677585     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60328-6     Document Type: Article

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