Suboccipital steroid injections for transitional treatment of patients with more than two cluster headache attacks per day: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 891-897

  Leroux, Elizabeth ^a   Valade, Dominique ^a   Taifas, Irina ^a   Vicaut, Eric ^b   Chagnon, Miguel ^c   Roos, Caroline ^a   Ducros, Anne ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^b HÔPITAL FERNAND WIDAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTIVAZOL; PLACEBO; SUMATRIPTAN; VERAPAMIL;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPISODIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INJECTION SITE NECK PAIN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; SUBOCCIPITAL STEROID INJECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CLUSTER HEADACHE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREGNATRIENES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VERAPAMIL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052970550     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(11)70186-7     Document Type: Article

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