Indomethacin-responsive episodic cluster headache.
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Indomethacin-responsive episodic cluster headache.
The case of a man with a 34 year history of episodic cluster headaches is described. At the peak of a cluster the headaches occurred up to twenty times a day. The headaches were unresponsive to conventional therapy but were dramatically abolished by indomethacin. This effect of indomethacin was confirmed in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.46.9.860