Cluster Headache: Potential Options for Medically Refractory Patients (When All Else Fails). Issue 7 (28th June 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tepper, Stewart J.; Stillman, Mark J.
• Is Part Of: Headache. Volume 53:Issue 7(2013)
• Page Start: 1183
• Page End: 1190
• Publication Date: 2013-06-28
• Subjects: Headache -- Periodicals; Headache -- Periodicals; 616.8491
• DOI: 10.1111/head.12148
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0017-8748

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>The most evidence exists for mixed anesthetic/steroid occipital nerve blocks (which are also useful in non‐refractory patients), deep brain stimulation, sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) blocks, SPG radiofrequency ablation, and SPG stimulation with the Autonomic Technologies, Inc (ATI) SPG Neurostimulator, the latter approved in the European Union and reimbursed in several countries.</p> </abstract>