Headache and sexual activity: A review

Headache

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1254-1256

  Turner, Ira M ^a   Harding, Tiffany M ^a  

^a Island Neurological Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILTIAZEM; INDOMETACIN; METOPROLOL; NARATRIPTAN; PROPRANOLOL;

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MIGRAINE; ONSET AGE; ORGASMIC HEADACHE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREORGASMIC HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY; SPINE DISEASE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VASOSPASM;

HEADACHE; HUMANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 51249117297     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01221.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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