The role of computed tomography in the diagnostic work-up of headache patients in Nigeria

Headache

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1346-1352

  Onwuchekwa, Chinwe R ^a   Onwuchekwa, Arthur C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

computed tomography; developing country; headache; neurologic abnormalities; population; teaching hospital

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NIGERIA; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; STROKE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956305955     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01712.x     Document Type: Article

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