Occipital nerve stimulation improves medically refractory chronic cluster headache
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Cluster headache is a type of primary headache defined by bouts of very severe pain that occur several times daily. The chronic form of the condition can be medically intractable, forcing treating physicians to resort to invasive or neurally destructive surgical interventions that are associated with substantial morbidity. Peripheral stimulation of the occipital nerve has been successfully used in open-label trials to manage other forms of medically refractory headache.
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