Review: Some questions provoked by a chronic headache (with mixed migraine and cluster headache features) in a woman with a pineal cyst. Answers from a literature review

Cephalalgia

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1031-1040

  Molina Martínez, Fj ^a   Jiménez Martnez, Mc ^a   Vives Pastor, B ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

Author keywords

headache; melatonin; pineal cysts; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

CELECOXIB; CODEINE; DEXKETOPROFEN; DICLOFENAC; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; DIPYRONE; ELETRIPTAN; ERGOTAMINE; ERGOTAMINE TARTRATE; FLUNARIZINE; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; MELATONIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NAPROXEN; NIMODIPINE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PIROXICAM; PROPRANOLOL; RIZATRIPTAN; SALICYLIC ACID; SUMATRIPTAN; TARTARIC ACID; TRAMADOL; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL; ZOLMITRIPTAN;

ANALGESIA; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DROWSINESS; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INHIBITION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPNIC HEADACHE; IRRITABILITY; NAUSEA; NIGHTMARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PINEAL BODY DISEASE; PINEAL CYST; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; VIVID DREAM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYST; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINEAL BODY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PINEAL GLAND;

EID: 78449281726     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: 14682982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0333102409359467     Document Type: Review

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