<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khader, Qasim A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abdul-Baqi, Khader J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mansour, Abbas H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mohammed, Faisal I.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cauterization of inferior nasal turbinate for idiopathic headache</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neurosciences Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003-01-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23-25</style></pages><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OBJECTIVE: Idiopathic headache is a stressful complaint, whose treatment is not well established. Our study is an attempt to examine the relationship between idiopathic headache and inferior turbinate cauterization as a surgical treatment, and to explain the central physiological effect of cauterization.METHODS: Thirty-four patients, 15 females and 19 males complaining of idiopathic headache were treated by inferior turbinate cauterization. Cauterization of the inferior-medial aspect of the turbinate was carried out once under local anesthesia for few seconds. This study was performed between November 1993 and December 1996, a joint project of the Zarka Government Hospital, Zarka and Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.RESULTS: More than 82% of the patients showed significant improvement in the sense of decreased headache.CONCLUSION: Cautery of the nasal turbinate could be a novel method for treatment of idiopathic headache.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>