Migraine headache is not associated with cerebral or meningeal vasodilatationa 3T magnetic resonance angiography study

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Vandenbrink, Antoinette Maassen ^a   Duncker, Dirk Jan ^a   Saxena, Pramod R ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; SUMATRIPTAN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENINGEAL ARTERY; MENINX; MIGRAINE; NERVE CONDUCTION; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VASODILATATION; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

CEREBRAL ARTERIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENINGES; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATION;

EID: 67649406421     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awn259     Document Type: Letter

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