Hemicrania continua-like headache due to nonmetastatic lung cancer - A vagal cephalalgia

Headache

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1349-1351

  Evans, Randolph W ^a  

^a Park Plaza Hospital Neurology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac cephalalgia; Facial pain; Hemicrania continua; Lung cancer; Vagal cephalalgia

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; METAXALONE; MOMETASONE FUROATE; NAPROXEN; TRAMADOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACE PAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 35248829532     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00936.x     Document Type: Article

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