Comparison of clinical characteristics of migraine and tension type headache
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Migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) are highly prevalent primary headaches that remain underdiagnosed and undertreated in clinical practice. The similarities and differences between migraine and TTH may impose diagnostic challenges as well as management difficulties. In addition, the possibility of migraine chronification or transformation in daily or near-daily headache raises the potenti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0019-5545
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.82538