The importance of craniovertebral and cervicomedullary angles in cervicogenic headache

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 172-177

  Çoban, Gökçen ^a   Çöven, Ilker ^a   Çifçi, Bilal Egemen ^a   Yildirim, Erkan ^a   Yazici, Ayşe Canan ^a   Horasanli, Bahriye ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICOMEDULLARY ANGLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRANIOVERTEBRAL ANGLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; SECONDARY HEADACHE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CERVICAL SPINE; MIDDLE AGED; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; SKULL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; SKULL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895456440     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5152/dir.2013.13213     Document Type: Article

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