The young woman with postpartum "thunderclap" headache

Headache

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 70-74

  Gladstone, Jonathan P ^a   Dodick, David W ^a   Evans, Randy ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MIGRAINE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SAGITTAL SINUS THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; PITUITARY DISEASES; PUERPERAL DISORDERS;

EID: 11844306523     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2005.05012.x     Document Type: Note

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