Cervicogenic headache: A review comparison with migraine, tension-type headache, and whiplash

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-243

  Vincent, Maurice B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cervicogenic headache; Migraine; Tension type headache; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE; CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; MYELOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN PARAMETERS; PHENOTYPE; PHONOPHOBIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TENSION HEADACHE; VOMITING; WHIPLASH INJURY; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 77956392287     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0114-x     Document Type: Review

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