Nasal decongestant and chronic headache: a case of naphazoline overuse headache?
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Nasal decongestant and chronic headache: a case of naphazoline overuse headache?
BACKGROUND Chronic headache is an incapacitating condition afflicting patients at least for 15 days per month. In the most cases it is developed as a consequence of an excessive use of symptomatic drugs. CASE Here we report the case of a 34 year-old man suffering from chronic headache possibly related to the overuse of naphazoline nitrate nasal decongestant, used to treat a supposed chronic s...
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عنوان ژورنال: F1000Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2046-1402
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.2-237.v1