Christopher J. Boes, M.D.

  1. Neurologist
  1. Mustafa R, Braksick SA, Cutsforth-Gregory JK, Burkholder DB, Flanagan EP, Graff-Radford J, Boes CJ, Leep Hunderfund AN, Jones LK, Coon EA. Curriculum Innovations: A Novel Neurology Clinician-Educator Program. Neurol Educ. 2024 Dec; 3 (4):e200175 Epub 2024 Nov 27
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  2. Badihian N, Christy AL, Boes CJ, Gutmann L, Coon EA. The Auxiliary to the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology. 2024 Mar 12; 102 (5):e209142 Epub 2024 Feb 06
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  3. Rogers NP, Boes CJ. Leonard Rowntree, Louis Wilson, Fielding Garrison, and the origins of teaching medical history at the Mayo Clinic. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2024; 37 (3):493-500 Epub 2024 Feb 28
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  4. Koehler PJ, Boes CJ. History of migraine. Handb Clin Neurol. 2023; 198:3-21
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  5. Wijdicks EFM, Boes CJ. Paroxysmal Panting: On Respiratory Crisis and Other Respiratory Curiosities in the Aftermath of Encephalitis Lethargica. Neurology. 2022 Jul 12; 99 (2):69-72 Epub 2022 May 25
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  6. Wijdicks E, Boes CJ. On Respiratory Crisis and Other Respiratory Curiosities in the Aftermath of Encephalitis Lethargica: "Like Asthma". Neurology. 2022 May 25 [Epub ahead of print]
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  7. Coon EA, Smith KM, Boes CJ. Dr. Betty Clements: Breaking Gender Barriers in the Air Force and Neurology. Neurology. 2022 May 17; 98 (20):841-846 Epub 2022 Mar 15
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  8. Smith KM, Boes CJ, Coon EA. Women in the Mayo Clinic Department of Neurology in its early years. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2022; 35 (5):649-654 Epub 2022 May 31
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  9. Burkholder DB, Boes CJ. Robert Wartenberg and the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 2021 Aug 10; 97 (6):268-272 Epub 2021 Apr 21
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  10. Boes CJ, Klaas JP, Tobin WO, Flanagan EP, McKeon A, Braksick SA, Burkholder DB, Stitt DW, Cutsforth-Gregory JK. Harry Lee Parker: Games Lost and Won on the Playing Fields of Neurology. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2021 Aug; 5 (4):701-719 Epub 2021 July 15
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  11. Boes CJ, Leep Hunderfund AN, Martinez-Thompson JM, Kumar N, Savica R, Cutsforth-Gregory JK, Jones LK Jr. Primer on the In-home Teleneurologic Examination: A COVID-19 Pandemic Imperative. Neurol Clin Pract. 2021 Apr; 11 (2):e157-e164
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  12. Huang AE, Marinelli JP, Link MJ, Boes CJ, Carlson ML. A Journey Through 100 Years of Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery at Mayo Clinic: A Historical Illustrative Case Series. Otol Neurotol. 2020 Dec; 41 (10):e1379-e1392
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  13. Boes CJ, Burkholder DB, Coon EA, Cutsforth-Gregory JK, Klaas JP, Jones LK Jr. Reciprocal Development and Progressive Responsibility: The History of the Mayo Clinic Neurology Residency. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2020 Oct; 4 (5):478-498 Epub 2020 Oct 06
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  14. Arca KN, Smith JH, Chiang CC, Starling AJ, Robertson CE, Halker Singh RB, Schwedt TJ, Kissoon NR, Garza I, Rozen TD, Boes CJ, Whealy MA, VanderPluym JH. COVID-19 and Headache Medicine: A Narrative Review of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) and Corticosteroid Use. Headache. 2020 Sep; 60 (8):1558-1568 Epub 2020 July 10
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  15. Bisco SE, Price DL, Olsen KD, Boes CJ, Carlson ML. "Filler-ins" to Physicians: History of the Otolaryngology Training Program at Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2020 Feb; 4 (1):76-89 Epub 2020 Jan 08
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  16. Arnold Fiebelkorn C, Lanzino G, Chen JJ, Brinjikji W, Eckel LJ, Boes CJ. Carotid Cavernous Fistula Mimicking Hemicrania Continua: A Case Report. Headache. 2019 Sep; 59 (8):1365-1369 Epub 2019 June 05
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  17. McCarter SJ, Burkholder DB, Klaas JP, Martinez-Thompson JM, Boes CJ. The Mary Walker effect: Mary Broadfoot Walker. J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2019 Sep; 49 (3):255-259
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  18. Boes CJ. Comment on "Chronic Migraine - Evolution of the Concept and Clinical Implications". Headache. 2019 Apr; 59 (4):623
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  19. Kissoon NR, Watson JC, Boes CJ, Kantarci OH. Occipital neuralgia associates with high cervical spinal cord lesions in idiopathic inflammatory demyelinating disease. Cephalalgia. 2019 Jan; 39 (1):21-28 Epub 2018 Apr 08
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  20. Jones LK Jr, Eggers SDZ, Capobianco DJ, Boes CJ. Timing of milestone competency acquisition in neurology residency: What by when? Neurology. 2018 Oct 16; 91 (16):748-754 Epub 2018 Sept 14
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  21. Coon EA, Koehler PJ, Boes CJ. Denise Louis-Bar: The eponymous woman of Louis-Bar syndrome. Neurology. 2018 Jul 24; 91 (4):175-179
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  22. Boes CJ. Adolph Sahs: A neurologist who could take on still another job. J Hist Neurosci 2018 Jul-Sep; 27 (3):251-257
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  23. McCarter SJ, Burkholder DB, Klaas JP, Boes CJ. Charles E. Beevor's lasting contributions to neurology: More than just a sign. Neurology. 2018 Mar 13; 90 (11):513-517
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  24. Stitt DW, Boes CJ, Flanagan EP, Howard MT, Colgan JP. A Case of cutaneous large B-cell lymphoma during treatment of multiple sclerosis with fingolimod. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2018 Jan; 19:115-117 Epub 2017 Nov 16
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  25. Burkholder DB, Koehler PJ, Boes CJ. Trigeminal Neuralgia and Multiple Sclerosis: A Historical Perspective. Can J Neurol Sci. 2017 Sep; 44 (5):589-593 Epub 2017 July 19
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  26. Boes CJ, Toodayan N, Lees A. Finding the grave of Sir William Richard Gowers. Pract Neurol. 2017 Aug; 17 (4):321-322 Epub 2017 May 04
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  27. Savica R, Vaz Carneiro Filho MR, Boes CJ. Cleomedes of Astypalaea: A possible early sufferer of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. J Clin Neurosci 2017 Aug; 42:193-195 Epub 2017 May 13
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  28. Toodayan N, Boes CJ. The eponymous legacy of Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915): A revealing letter. J Hist Neurosci 2017 Apr-Jun; 26 (2):169-192 Epub 2016 Aug 11
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  29. Kazamel M, Boes CJ. Renaut Corpuscles or Peripheral Nerve Infarcts? A Historical Overview. Can J Neurol Sci. 2017 Mar; 44: (2)184-189.
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  30. Zubair A, Boes CJ. A 1911 postcard of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic highlighting European medical specialty training. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2017 Jan; 30 (1):106-108
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  31. Carvalho DZ, Boes CJ. Absent quadriceps reflex with distant toe flexor response: An underrecognized neurological sign. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2016 Oct; 149:44-5.
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  32. Boes CJ. Gowers and Osler: good friends 'all through'. J R Coll Physicians Edinb. 2016 Mar; 46: (1)55-64.
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  33. Flanagan EP, Kotsenas AL, Britton JW, McKeon A, Watson RE, Klein CJ, Boeve BF, Lowe V, Ahlskog JE, Shin C, Boes CJ, Crum BA, Laughlin RS, Pittock SJ. Basal ganglia T1 hyperintensity in LGI1-autoantibody faciobrachial dystonic seizures. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2015 Dec; 2 (6):e161 Epub 2015 Oct 01
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  34. Carlson ML, Tveiten OV, Driscoll CL, Boes CJ, Sullan MJ, Goplen FK, Lund-Johansen M, Link MJ. Risk factors and analysis of long-term headache in sporadic vestibular schwannoma: a multicenter cross-sectional study. J Neurosurg. 2015 Nov; 123: (5)1276-86.
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  35. Teigen L, Boes CJ. An evidence-based review of oral magnesium supplementation in the preventive treatment of migraine. Cephalalgia. 2015 Sep; 35: (10)912-22.
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  36. Jones LK Jr, Dimberg EL, Boes CJ, Eggers SD, Dodick DW, Cutsforth-Gregory JK, Leep Hunderfund AN, Capobianco DJ. Milestone-compatible neurology resident assessments: A role for observable practice activities. Neurology. 2015 Jun 2; 84 (22):2279-83 Epub 2015 May 01
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  37. Boes CJ. History of neurologic examination books. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2015 Apr; 28 (2):172-9
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  38. Graff-Radford J, Boes CJ, Brown RD Jr. History of Hollenhorst plaques. Stroke. 2015 Apr; 46: (4)e82-4.
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  39. Boes CJ. Osler on migraine. Can J Neurol Sci. 2015 Mar; 42 (2):144-7 Epub 2015 Feb 27
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  40. Mathew PG, Boes CJ, Garza I. A tale of two systems: cardiac cephalalgia vs migrainous thoracalgia. Headache: The Journal of Head & Face Pain. 2015 Feb; 55(2):310-2.
  41. Boes CJ, Long TR, Rose SH, Fye WB. The founding of the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education. Mayo Clin Proc. 2015 Feb; 90(2):252-63.
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  42. Kazamel M, Boes CJ. Charcot Marie Tooth disease (CMT): historical perspectives and evolution. J Neurol. 2015; 262 (4):801-5 Epub 2014 Sept 09
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  43. Boes CJ. The history of examination of reflexes. J Neurol. 2014 Dec; 261 (12):2264-74 Epub 2014 Apr 03
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  44. Burkholder DB, Boes CJ. Silas Weir Mitchell on epilepsy therapy in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Can J Neurol Sci. 2014 Nov; 41 (6):769-72 Epub 2014 Nov 10
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  45. Smith JH, Garrity JA, Boes CJ. Clinical features and long-term prognosis of trochlear headaches. Eur J Neurol. 2014 Apr; 21(4):577-85. Epub 2013 Nov 22.
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  46. Griessenauer CJ, Tubbs RS, Shoja MM, Raborn J, Boes CJ, Mortazavi MM, Lanzino G. Alfred W. Adson (1887-1951): his contributions to surgery for tumors of the spine and spinal cord in the context of spinal tumor surgery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. J Neurosurg Spine. 2013 Dec; 19(6):750-8. Epub 2013 Oct 18.
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  47. Burkholder DB, Klaas JP, Kumar N, Boes CJ. The origin of Woltman's sign of myxoedema. J Clin Neurosci. 2013 Sep; 20 (9):1204-6 Epub 2013 Mar 19
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  48. Klaas JP, Burkholder DB, Singer W, Boes CJ. Harry Lee Parker and paroxysmal dysarthria and ataxia. Neurology 2013 Jan 15; 80 (3):311-4
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  49. Pollock BE, Boes CJ. Stereotactic radiosurgery for glossopharyngeal neuralgia: preliminary report of 5 cases. J Neurosurg. 2011 Nov; 115(5):936-9. Epub 2011 Jul 08.
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  50. Bernardo MC, Graff Radford J, Menke J, Hallemeier C, Boes CJ, Lewis M, Scheithauer B, Giannini C. Intravascular mucinosis: a rare cause of cerebral infarction. Acta Neuropathol 2011 Jun; 121 (6):785-8 Epub 2011 May 04
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  51. Reda HM, Taylor SW, Klein CJ, Boes CJ. A case of sensory ataxia as the presenting manifestation of neurosarcoidosis. Muscle Nerve. 2011 Jun; 43(6):900-5.
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  52. Deluca GC, Boes CJ, Krueger BR, Mokri B, Kumar N. Ventral intraspinal fluid-filled collection secondary to CSF leak presenting as bibrachial amyotrophy. Neurology. 2011 Apr 19; 76(16):1439-40.
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  53. Mateen FJ, Boes CJ. "Pinheads": the exhibition of neurologic disorders at "The Greatest Show on Earth". Neurology. 2010 Nov 30; 75(22):2028-32.
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  54. Koehler PJ, Boes CJ. A history of non-drug treatment in headache, particularly migraine. Brain. 2010 Aug; 133(Pt 8):2489-500. Epub 2010 Jul 17.
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  55. Kumar N, Boes CJ, Vilensky J. Neurologic sequelae of deficiency diseases in World War II prisoners of war: Extracts from a videographic narrative. J Clin Neurosci. 2010 Mar; 17(3):294-5. Epub 2010 Jan 13
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  56. Claassen DO, Boes CJ. Rosenow's rabbits and postencephalitic parkinsonism. Neurology 2009 Oct 13; 73 (15):1240-1
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  57. Jerath NU, Newman JS, Boes CJ. The biography of Mary E. O'Sullivan: an early American headache specialist. Cephalalgia. 2009 Oct; 29 (10):1028-33 Epub 2009 Apr 09
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  58. Cornelius JR, Boes CJ, Ghearing G, Leavitt JA, Kumar N. Visual symptoms in the Heidenhain variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. J Neuroimaging. 2009 Jul; 19 (3):283-7
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  59. Mateen FJ, Boes CJ, Kumar N. Unilateral headache and hypoglossal nerve palsy: a report of three cases. Cephalalgia. 2007 Jul; 27(7):840-2.
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  60. Boes CJ. Bayard Horton's clinicopathological description of giant cell (temporal) arteritis. Cephalalgia. 2007 Jan; 27 (1):68-75
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  61. Boes CJ, Black DF, Dodick DW. Pathophysiology and management of transformed migraine and medication overuse headache. Semin Neurol. 2006 Apr; 26(2):232-41.
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  62. Boes CJ, Swanson JW. Paroxysmal hemicrania, SUNCT, and hemicrania continua. Semin Neurol. 2006 Apr; 26(2):260-70.
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  63. Kumar N, Boes CJ, Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Boeve BF. The "eye-of-the-tiger" sign is not pathognomonic of the PANK2 mutation. Arch Neurol. 2006 Feb; 63(2):292-3.
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  64. Boes CJ, Mulder D, Millikan C, Windebank AJ, Dyck PJ, Dyck PJ, Espinosa R. History of standard scoring, notation, and summation of neuromuscular signs. A current survey and recommendation. J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2005 Jun; 10 (2):158-73
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  65. Boes CJ, Capobianco DJ. Chronic migraine and medication-overuse headache through the ages. Cephalalgia. 2005 May; 25 (5):378-90
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  66. Evans RW, Boes CJ. Spontaneous low cerebrospinal fluid pressure syndrome can mimic primary cough headache. Headache. 2005 Apr; 45(4):374-7.
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  67. Boes CJ. C2 myelitis presenting with neuralgiform occipital pain. Neurology. 2005 Mar 22; 64 (6):1093-4
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  68. Klein CJ, Boes CJ, Chapin JE, Lynch CD, Campeau NG, Dyck PJB, Dyck PJ. Adult polyglucosan body disease: case description of an expanding genetic and clinical syndrome. Muscle Nerve. 2004 Feb; 29(2):323-8.
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  69. Cutrer FM, Boes CJ. Cough, exertional, and sex headaches. Neurol Clin. 2004 Feb; 22(1):133-49.
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  70. Reuter U, del Rio MS, Carpay JA, Boes CJ, Silberstein SD. Placebo adverse events in headache trials: headache as an adverse event of placebo. Cephalalgia. 2003 Sep; 23(7):496-503.
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  71. Matharu MS, Cohen AS, Boes CJ, Goadsby PJ. Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing syndrome: a review. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2003 Aug; 7 (4):308-18
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  72. Boes CJ, Matharu MS, Goadsby PJ. The paroxysmal hemicrania-tic syndrome. Cephalalgia. 2003; 23:24-8.
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  73. Matharu MS, Boes CJ, Goadsby PJ. Management of trigeminal autonomic cephalgias and hemicrania continua. Drugs. 2003; 63(16):1637-77.
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  74. Boes CJ, Matharu MS, Goadsby PJ. Benign cough headache. Cephalalgia. 2002 Dec; 22(10):772-9.
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  75. Boes CJ, Dodick DW. Refining the clinical spectrum of chronic paroxysmal hemicrania: a review of 74 patients. Headache. 2002 Sep; 42 (8):699-708
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  76. Boes CJ, Capobianco DJ, Matharu MS, Goadsby PJ. Wilfred Harris' early description of cluster headache. Cephalalgia. 2002 May; 22 (4):320-6
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  77. Matharu MS, Boes CJ, Goadsby PJ. SUNCT syndrome: prolonged attacks, refractoriness and response to topiramate. Neurology. 2002; 58:1307.
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  78. Matharu MS, Boes CJ, Goadsby PJ. Managing the patient with migraine. Practitioner. 2001 Jun; 245(1623):511, 515-8, 521 passim.
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  79. Boes CJ, Swanson JW, Dodick DW. Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania presenting as otalgia with a sensation of external acoustic meatus obstruction: two cases and a pathophysiologic hypothesis. Headache. 1998 Nov-Dec; 38 (10):787-91
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  80. Boes B, Bashir R, Boes C, Hahn F, McConnell JR, McComb R. Central nervous system aspergillosis: analysis of 26 patients. Journal of Neuroimaging. 1994; 4:123-9.
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  81. Boes CJ, Elson JD, Call JE. Stereotactic breast biopsy: initial experience and recommendations for improvement. Nebraska Medical Journal. 1993; 78:380-2.
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