Is there need to search for alternatives to indomethacin for hemicrania continua? Case reports and a review

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 187-190

  Prakash, Sanjay ^a   Husain, Mahammed ^a   Sureka, Dhara S ^a   Shah, Nimish P ^a   Shah, Nilima D ^a  

^a Baroda Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

Hemicrania continua; Idomethacin responsive headaches; Indomethacin and side effects

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; DICLOFENAC; DULOXETINE; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; PARACETAMOL; PROPRANOLOL; SUMATRIPTAN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VERAPAMIL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEADACHE; HEMICRANIA CONTINUA; HUMAN; MALE; MELENA; MIGRAINE AURA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONOPHOBIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICONVULSANTS; FRUCTOSE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 58149312955     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2008.10.027     Document Type: Article

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