From the nutcracker-phenomenon of the left renal vein to the midline congestion syndrome as a cause of migraine, headache, back and abdominal pain and functional disorders of pelvic organs

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1318-1327

  Scholbach, Thomas ^a  

^a the Saxonian Association of CHI Physicians   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BACKACHE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPAREUNIA; FLANK PAIN; HEADACHE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY VEIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDLINE CONGESTION SYNDROME; MIGRAINE; NUTCRACKER PHENOMENON; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RENAL ARTERY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; VEIN DILATATION; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ASPIRIN; BACK PAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PELVIC PAIN; RENAL CIRCULATION; RENAL VEINS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 33947690831     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.10.040     Document Type: Article

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