Headache in primary care
By: Stephen D. Silberstein...[et al.].
Contributors: Silberstein, Stephen D.
Publisher: Isis Medical Media
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Headache -- therapy; Primary Health Care
Notes: Includes bibliogrgaphical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface. 1. The importance of headache in primary care; title: section 1. Pathophysiology and epidemiology of headache. 2. Classification and diagnosis of headache ; 3. Epidemiology and impact of headache disorders ; 4. Diagnostic testing and ominous causes of headache ; 5. The pathophysiology of primary headache; title: section 2. Primary headache disorders. 6. Migraine: diagnosis and treatment ; 7. Tension-type headache: diagnosis and treatment ; 8. Chronic daily headache: diagnosis and treatment ; 9. Cluster headache and related syndromes: diagnosis and treatment; title: section 3. Secondary headache disorders. 10. Post-traumatic headache ; 11. Headache associated with diseases in the intracranial cavity ; 12. Sinus headache ; 13. Headache assoicated with central nervous system infection ; 14. Pregnancy, breast-feeding, and headache ; 15. Geriatric headache.