Two cases of symptomatic cluster-like headache suggest the importance of sympathetic/parasympathetic balance

Cephalalgia

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1069-1073

  Straube, A ^a   Freilinger, T ^a   Ruther T ^a   Padovan, C ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Internal carotid artery; Parasympathetic activation; Sympathetic lesion; Symptomatic cluster like headache

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE; PREDNISOLONE; SUMATRIPTAN; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT METASTASIS; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CLUSTER HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 34548103054     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: 14682982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2007.01348.x     Document Type: Article

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