Hemicrania continua

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Charlson, Robert W ^a   Robbins, Matthew S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemicrania continua; Indomethacin responsive headache; Review; Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia; Unilateral headache

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BUPIVACAINE; CELECOXIB; GABAPENTIN; INDOMETACIN; MELATONIN; MEPIVACAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PIROXICAM; ROFECOXIB; TOPIRAMATE; TRIAMCINOLONE; VERAPAMIL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEMICRANIA CONTINUA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LONG TERM CARE; MIGRAINE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCK; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; REVIEW; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INDOMETHACIN;

EID: 84892576035     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-013-0436-2     Document Type: Review

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