Treatment of intractable chronic cluster headache by occipital nerve stimulation in 14 patients

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 341-345

  Burns, Brian ^a   Watkins, Laurence ^a   Goadsby, Peter J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; ELECTRODE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CLUSTER HEADACHE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60549087868     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000341279.17344.c9     Document Type: Article

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