Mild head trauma and chronic headaches in returning us soldiers

Headache

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 529-534

  Theeler, Brett J ^a   Erickson, Jay C ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Headache; Iraq; Post traumatic headache; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; CONCUSSION; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; NECK INJURY; NEURALGIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; TENSION HEADACHE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 63449086660     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2009.01345.x     Document Type: Article

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