Greater occipital nerve blocks as migraine therapy: A discussion of two recent randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trials

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Seymour Solomon. Cephalalgia. 2016 Oct.

. 2016 Oct;36(11):1094.

doi: 10.1177/0333102415623072. Epub 2016 Jul 20.

¹ Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Headache Center, USA.

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