Role of sphenopalatine ganglion neuroablation in the management of cluster headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-163

  Narouze, Samer N ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster headache; Radiofrequency ablation; Sphenopalatine ganglion

Indexed keywords

BRADYCARDIA; CHRONIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; DRY EYE; EPISODIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; EPISTAXIS; GANGLION; HUMAN; MOUTH TUMOR; NEUROANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PTERYGOPALATINE GANGLION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SHORT SURVEY; THERMOCOAGULATION;

CATHETER ABLATION; CLUSTER HEADACHE; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; PTERYGOPALATINE FOSSA;

EID: 77953539170     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0100-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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