Preventive treatment of migraine
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Recibido: 09/07/08. Revisado: 11/07/08. Aceptado: 23/07/08. Ninan T. Mathew. director de la Clínica de Cefalea de Houston. Profesor de Neurología en la Escuela de Medicina Universidad de Texas Houston. Presidente de la Sociedad Internacional de Cefalea, de la sección de cefalea de la Academia Americana de Neurología y del Consejo Americano para educación en cefalea. Es autor de 200 publicaciones y revisor de Neurology, entre otras publicaciones médicas.
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