Acute treatment of basilar-type migraine with greater occipital nerve blockade

Headache

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1057-1059

  Baron, Eric P ^a   Tepper, Stewart J ^a   Mays, Maryann ^a   Cherian, Neil ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute migraine treatment; Basilar artery migraine; Basilar migraine; Basilar type migraine; Bickerstaff migraine; Greater occipital nerve block

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CAFFEINE; ERGOT DERIVATIVE; PARACETAMOL; TRIAMCINOLONE; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR TYPE MIGRAINE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREATER OCCIPITAL NERVE BLOCKADE; HUMAN; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; SPINAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NERVE BLOCK; SPINAL NERVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953226976     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01682.x     Document Type: Article

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