Chronic daily headache: When to suspect meningitis

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-55

  Davis, Larry E ^a   Katzman, Joanna G ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN HERNIA; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MENINGITIS; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEADACHE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MENINGITIS; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 39049083539     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-008-0010-9     Document Type: Review

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