Indomethacin-responsive hemicrania associated with an extracranial vascular malformation: Report of two cases

Cephalalgia

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 997-1000

  D'Alessio, C ^a   Ambrosini, A ^a   Colonnese, C ^a   Pompeo, F ^a   Vandenheede, M ^b   Pierellie, F ^a   Schoenen, Jean ^b  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; FLUNARIZINE; INDOMETACIN;

ADULT; ANGIOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EYELID EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMICRANIA CONTINUA; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MIGRAINE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; REMISSION; RHINORRHEA; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDOMETHACIN; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS;

EID: 8144225143     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2004.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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