Abrupt-onset severe headaches

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 192-200

  Ju, Yo El S ^a   Schwedt, Todd J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes; Sentinel headache; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Thunderclap headache

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; SEROTONIN AGONIST;

ARTERY DISSECTION; BLOOD PATCH; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; REVIEW; SENTINEL HEADACHE; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPINE POSITION; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CRANIAL SINUSES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEADACHE DISORDERS, PRIMARY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 77950527675     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: 10989021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1249229     Document Type: Review

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