The Effectiveness of Cerebral Imaging in the Diagnosis of Chronic Headache

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 2457-2462

  Weingarten, Scott ^a,b   Kleinman, Martin ^a   Elperin, Louis ^a   Larson, Eric B ^c  

^a Southern California Permanente Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEADACHE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0026465026     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1992.00400240077013     Document Type: Article

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