The sexagenarian woman with new-onset cluster headaches.
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چکیده
This headache type has had many different names in the past including ciliary neuralgia, erythroprosopalgia of Bing, hemicrania periodic neuralgiforms, histaminic cephalalgia, Horton’s headache, migrainous neuralgia, Sluder’s neuralgia, and sphenopalatine neuralgia. Kunkle and colleagues observed the tendency of the headaches to cluster in time and proposed the term, “cluster headache,” in 1952.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Headache
دوره 51 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011