Primary headache diagnosis among chronic daily headache patients
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Primary headache diagnosis among chronic daily headache patients.
Chronic daily headache (CDH) refers to a group of non-paroxysmal daily or near-daily headaches with peculiar characteristics that are highly prevalent in populations of neurological clinics and not uncommon among non-patient populations. Most of the patients with CDH had, as primary diagnosis, episodic migraine, which, with the time, presented a progressive frequency, pattern modification and l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2003000300008