Diagnosis and management of headache attributed to airplane travel

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Mainardi, Federico ^a,b,c   Maggioni, Ferdinando ^a   Lisotto, Carlo ^b   Zanchin, Giorgio ^b  

^a Ospedale Civile SS Giovanni e Paolo   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Headache Centre Department of Neurology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerosinusitis; Airplane headache; Airplane travel headache; Sinus barotrauma

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIMENHYDRINATE; IBUPROFEN; NAPHAZOLINE; NAPROXEN; NIMESULIDE; PARACETAMOL; PHENAZONE; PROCAINE; SCOPOLAMINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE SINUSITIS; AIRPLANE HEADACHE; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FLIGHT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF HEADACHE DISORDER; MASTICATION; PRESSURE; RELAXATION SENSATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VALSALVA MANEUVER; ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAROTRAUMA; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEADACHE; SINUSITIS; STANDARD; TRAVEL;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; ANALGESICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAROTRAUMA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS, PRIMARY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINUSITIS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872275788     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-012-0335-y     Document Type: Article

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