Favorable response to analgesics does not predict a benign etiology of headache

Headache

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 944-950

  Pope, Jennifer V ^a   Edlow, Jonathan A ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesics; Misdiagnosis; Secondary headache; Sumatriptans

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; DIAZEPAM; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; ERGOTAMINE; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; KETOROLAC; LORAZEPAM; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; SUMATRIPTAN; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANALGESICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIEMETICS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR AGONISTS; SUMATRIPTAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44849127004     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01127.x     Document Type: Article

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