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Inclusion criteria were evidence of chronic occipital headache with and without migrainous features and tenderness of neck muscles, occipital allodynia, and inadequate response to prophylactic drugs.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Surgical decompression of the greater and lesser occipital nerves provided complete and extended (3\u20136 years) relief of new daily persistent headache in case 3 (46 year old female), and of chronic post-traumatic headache in cases 4 and 6 (35 and 30 year old females, respectively), partial relief of chronic headache\/migraine in cases 1 and 2 (41 year old female and 36 year old male), and no relief of episodic (cases 3 and 4) or chronic migraine (case 5, 52 year old male), or chronic tension-type headache (case 7, 31 year old male).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>As a case series, this study cannot test a hypothesis or determine cause and effect. However, the complete elimination of new daily persistent headache and post-traumatic headache, and the partial elimination of chronic headache\/migraine in two patients \u2013 all refractory to other treatment approaches \u2013 supports and justifies the effort to continue to generate data that can help determine whether decompression nerve surgeries are beneficial in the treatment of certain types of chronic headache.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/0333102418801585","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,15]],"date-time":"2018-09-15T21:42:48Z","timestamp":1537047768000},"page":"556-563","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Tracking patients with chronic occipital headache after occipital nerve decompression surgery: A case series"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"39","author":[{"given":"Pamela","family":"Blake","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Headache Center of Greater Heights, Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital, Houston, TX, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rony-Reuven","family":"Nir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA"},{"name":"Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Carlton J","family":"Perry","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"River Oaks Plastic Surgery Center, Houston, TX, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rami","family":"Burstein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA"},{"name":"Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-0333102418801585","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0304-3959(92)90059-K"},{"key":"bibr2-0333102418801585","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0304-3959(93)90131-8"},{"key":"bibr3-0333102418801585","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1526-4610.1981.hed2102049.x"},{"key":"bibr4-0333102418801585","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Selby G and Lance JW. 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