High-altitude headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-296

  Queiros, Luis P ^a   Rapoport, Alan M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; BRADYKININ; DEXAMETHASONE; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; IBUPROFEN; NITRIC OXIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; SUMATRIPTAN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; EXERTIONAL HEADACHE; HEADACHE; HIGH ALTITUDE HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MIGRAINE; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEADACHE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS;

EID: 34547555587     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0206-4     Document Type: Review

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