Unusual headache syndromes

Headache

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-22

  Queiroz, Luiz P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cardiac cephalgia; exploding head syndrome; neck tongue syndrome; nummular headache; red ear syndrome; unusual headache

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMITRIPTYLINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; FLUNARIZINE; GABAPENTIN; IMIPRAMINE; INDOMETACIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NAPROXEN; NEUROTROPIN; NIFEDIPINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; TOPIRAMATE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CARDIAC CEPHALGIA; CERVICAL COLLAR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ECZEMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ERYSIPELAS; ERYTHROMELALGIA; EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROME; EXTERNAL OTITIS; HEADACHE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART OUTPUT; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPNIC HEADACHE; INCIDENCE; LEPROSY; LYMPHOCYTOMA; MELANCHOLIA; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION; MIGRAINE; MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; NECK TONGUE SYNDROME; NEURASTHENIA; NIGHTMARE; NONREM SLEEP; NUMMULAR HEADACHE; PARASOMNIA; PAROXYSMAL HEMICRANIA; PATHOGENESIS; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; PHOTODERMATOSIS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; RARE DISEASE; RED EAR SYNDROME; RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNORING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HEADACHE; HUMANS; SYNDROME;

EID: 84872103759     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/head.12002     Document Type: Review

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