Occipital nerve stimulation for medically intractable headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-66

  Schwedt, Todd J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; INDOMETACIN; OPIATE; STEROID;

CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CRANIAL NERVE; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EXPLANT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEMICRANIA CONTINUA; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTRACTABLE PAIN; MIGRAINE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEURALGIA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OCCIPITAL NERVE; OCCIPITAL NERVE STIMULATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CERVICAL PLEXUS; CLUSTER HEADACHE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEURALGIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39049172244     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-008-0012-7     Document Type: Review

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