Medication overuse as a cause of chronic headache in shunted hydrocephalus patients

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1261-1264

  Willer, L ^a,b   Jensen, R H ^a   Juhler, M ^b  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIGRAINE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHUNTING; TENSION HEADACHE;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS, SECONDARY; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PILOT PROJECTS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649621973     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.198101     Document Type: Article

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