Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: A thunderclap headache-associated condition

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 108-114

  Gerretsen, Philip ^a   Kern, Ralph Z ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; NIMODIPINE; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

BATH; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIGRAINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREECLAMPSIA; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VISUAL DISORDER; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEADACHE; SYNDROME;

ADULT; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS, PRIMARY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME; VASOCONSTRICTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62649102334     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-009-0018-5     Document Type: Review

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