When and how to investigate the patient with headache

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-144

  De Luca, G C ^a   Bartleson, J D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic testing; Guidelines; Headache; Investigation; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; HORMONE; IMMUNOLOGIC AGENT;

ANALYSIS; ANAMNESIS; AROUSAL; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CISTERNOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EXERTIONAL HEADACHE; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MYELOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTURAL HEADACHE; PREGNANCY; PRIMARY HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SECONDARY HEADACHE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77950495359     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: 10989021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1249221     Document Type: Review

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