Impact of the International Headache Society criteria on the use of neuroimaging for headache diagnosis in a headache clinic

Headache

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 747-751

  Fabbrini, Giovanni ^a,b   Barbanti, Piero ^a   Pascali, Maria Paola ^a   Lenzi, Gian Luigi ^a   Cerbo, Rosanna ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

CT scan; Headache; IHS diagnostic criteria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSION HEADACHE;

EID: 0033383061     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1999.3910747.x     Document Type: Article

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