An approach to the patient with painful ophthalmoplegia, with a focus on Tolosa-Hunt syndrome

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 317-325

  Gladstone, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Gladstone Headache Clinic   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMIGRAINE AGENT; GADOLINIUM; OPIATE; PREDNISONE; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHOTOPHOBIA; PTOSIS; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SLEEP DISORDER; TOLOSA HUNT SYNDROME;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PAIN; TOLOSA-HUNT SYNDROME;

EID: 34547609664     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0211-7     Document Type: Review

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