Suboccipital nerve blocks for suppression of chronic migraine: Safety, efficacy, and predictors of outcome

Headache

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1041-1044

  Weibelt, Silvia ^a   Andress Rothrock, Diane ^a   King, Wesley ^a   Rothrock, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BUPIVACAINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RATING SCALE; SAFETY; SUBOCCIPITAL NERVE BLOCK; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NERVE BLOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953179272     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01687.x     Document Type: Article

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