Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of cluster headache

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-123

  Kano, Hideyuki ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Niranjan, Ajay ^a   Flickinger, John C ^b   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster headache; Gamma knife; Sphenopalatine ganglion; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Trigeminal dysfunction

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLUSTER HEADACHE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; NEUROSURGERY; PARESTHESIA; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; RHIZOTOMY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER HEADACHE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 79955836510     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0169-8     Document Type: Review

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