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. 2026 Mar 13.
doi: 10.1186/s10194-026-02319-w. Online ahead of print.

Predictive factors of effectiveness of occipital nerve stimulation for chronic cluster headache: data from for the French ONS registry

Denys Fontaine  1   2 , Roxane Fabre  2 , Aurelie Leplus  1   2 , Anne Donnet  3 , Jean Regis  4 , Anne Balossier  4 , Christian Lucas  5   6 , Nadia Buisset  7 , Sylvie Raoul  8 , Stéphane Derrey  9 , Bechir Jarraya  10   11 , Christelle Creach  12   13 , Stéphan Chabardes  14 , Jimmy Voirin  15 , Sophie Colnat-Coulbois  16 , Francois Caire  17 , Philippe Rigoard  18   19 , Geneviève Demarquay  20 , Emile Simon  21 , Michel Lanteri-Minet  22   23
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Predictive factors of effectiveness of occipital nerve stimulation for chronic cluster headache: data from for the French ONS registry

Denys Fontaine et al. J Headache Pain. .
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Declarations. Competing interests: This research was supported by the University Hospital of Nice, as part of the FHU INOVPAIN consortium (Nice, France). While Medtronic and St Jude Medical-Abbott provided financial support for the study, these companies were not involved in its design, data collection, analysis, interpretation and in the manuscript writing. Denys Fontaine is consultant for Medtronic, Boston scientific and Abbott and has received research grants from Abbott and Medtronic, outside and for the present study. Aurelie Leplus has received speaker fees from Boston Scientific and is consultant for Abbott. Sylvie Raoul reports grants and personal fees from Medtronic, Abbott and Boston Scientific, outside the submitted work. Anne Balossier is consultant for Medtronic and Abbott and reports personal fees from Medtronic and Abbott, outside the submitted work. Sylvie Raoul received consulting fees from Medtronic, Abbott and Boston Scientific. Jimmy Voirin is consultant for Medtronic, Boston Scientific and Abbott and has received fees from Medtronic and Boston Scientific. Philippe Rigoard reports research grants and speaker fees from Medtronic, Abbott and Boston Scientific. Geneviève Demarquay has received financial support from Allergan-Abbvie, Lilly, Lundbeck, Novartis, Pfizer, Teva, not related to the present study. Emile Simon reports fees from Medtronic and Boston Scientific, outside the submitted work. Michel Lanteri-Minet is consultant for Medtronic and has received research grants from Abbott and Medtronic, outside and for the present study; he is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Headache and Pain. Other authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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