Deep brain stimulation in cluster headache: Hypothalamus or midbrain tegmentum?

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-159

  Matharu, Manjit S ^a   Zrinzo, Ludvic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster headache; Deep brain stimulation; Functional imaging; Neuromodulation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLUSTER HEADACHE; DIENCEPHALON; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TEGMENTUM; TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALALGIA; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

CLUSTER HEADACHE; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 77953541069     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0099-5     Document Type: Review

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