Migraine mimics

Headache

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 313-322

  Evans, Randolph W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

hemicrania continua; migraine; migraine mimic; symptomatic migraine

Indexed keywords

BUTALBITAL; DICLOFENAC; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; KETOROLAC; OMEPRAZOLE; PREDNISONE; PREGABALIN; SUMATRIPTAN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROME; ARTERY DISSECTION; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CADASIL; CARDIAC CEPHALALGIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; EPILEPSY; EYE REDNESS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEADACHE; HEMICRANIA CONTINUA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MENSTRUAL MIGRAINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE AURA; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEW DAILY PERSISTENT HEADACHE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECONDARY HEADACHE; SINUSITIS; STROKE LIKE MIGRAINE ATTACKS AFTER RADIATION THERAPY SYNDROME; STROKE LIKE MIGRAINE ATTACKS RADIATION THERAPY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VIRUS MENINGITIS; VOMITING; BRAIN; EXPERT WITNESS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BRAIN; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDOMETHACIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS;

EID: 84923248096     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/head.12518     Document Type: Review

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