| Description |
1 online resource (x, 192 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge Medicine |
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Cambridge medicine (Series)
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| Contents |
Confusing one benign headache with another -- Mistaking primary headache for another condition -- Missing dangerous causes of headache -- Pitfalls in diagnostic testing : imaging and lumbar puncture -- Pitfalls in diagnostic testing : blood, urine, and other tests -- When historical or examination findings are missed or misinterpreted -- Errors in management of acute headache -- Pitfalls in drug therapy to prevent headaches -- Pitfalls in nonpharmacologic treatment of headache -- Challenges and special situations in headache management -- Medicolegal pitfalls in headache management |
| Summary |
Although headache is one of the most common complaints that patients bring to their clinicians, few physicians feel confident about its clinical evaluation and management. Is it a problem in its own right, or the presenting symptom of a serious medical condition? Loder, Rizzoli and Burch bring a practical case-based approach to this complex ailment, highlighting specific areas of diagnostic uncertainty in headache evaluation and treatment. Each case is taken from real-world clinical practice and reviews the diagnostic and treatment process in a systematic manner, identifying common challenges and pitfalls and describing newly issued treatment guidelines. Written in a question and answer format, this concise and useful guide in the Common Pitfalls series provides a step-by-step guide for everyday clinical practice, invaluable to anyone dealing with headache on a front-line basis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Headache -- Diagnosis -- Case studies.
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Headache -- Treatment -- Case studies.
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Headache -- diagnosis.
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Headache -- therapy.
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| Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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Case studies.
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Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burch, Rebecca C., author
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Rizzoli, Paul, author
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| ISBN |
1139519336 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139519335 (electronic bk.) |
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