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Neurosurgical Treatment of Persistent Occipital Myalgia-Neuralgia Syndrome

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Abstract

At the First World Congress on Pain, in Florence (Italy) in 1975, the results of neurosurgical treatment of 114 patients suffering intractable occipital neuralgia and/or myalgia syndrome were presented [2–9]. Since then, a total of 450 patients with the same syndrome have been treated and their progress followed over a period of 2–10 years.

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  1. Horst Blume
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  2. Mustafa Atac
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  1. Neurologische Klinik und Poliklinik des Klinikums Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München, Marchioninistraße 15, 8000, München 70, Federal Republic of Germany

    Volker Pfaffenrath

  2. Department of Neurology, University of Uppsala, 75014, Uppsala, Sweden

    Per-Olov Lundberg

  3. Department of Neurology, University of Trondheim, 7000, Trondheim, Norway

    Ottar Sjaastad

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Blume, H., Atac, M., Golnick, J. (1985). Neurosurgical Treatment of Persistent Occipital Myalgia-Neuralgia Syndrome. In: Pfaffenrath, V., Lundberg, PO., Sjaastad, O. (eds) Updating in Headache. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88581-5_5

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