Greater occipital nerve blockade for the treatment of chronic migraine: a randomized, multicenter, double-blind, and placebo-controlled study

Ertuğrul İnan, Levent; İnan, Nurten; Karadaş, Ömer; Levent Gül, Hakan; Kemal Erdemoğlu, Ali; Türkel, Yakup; Akyol, Ali

doi:10.1111/ane.12393

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Greater occipital nerve blockade for the treatment of chronic migraine: a randomized, multicenter, double-blind, and placebo-controlled study

Published in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica • Mar 13, 2015

Authors:

Levent Ertuğrul İnan

Nurten İnan

Ömer Karadaş

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to assess the efficacy of greater occipital nerve (GON) blockade at chronic migraine (CM) treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with CM were randomly divided into two groups of 42. GON blockade was administered four times (once per week) with saline in group A or bupivacain...

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Medicine

Anesthesia

Placebo

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