Should non acute and recurrent headaches have neuroimaging before review by a Neurologist- A review in a Southern Nigerian Tertiary Hospital

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 290-293

  Imarhiagbe, Frank Aiwansoba ^a   Ogbeide, Ehi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Headaches; neurologist; tomography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGY; NIGERIA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81755178291     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: 09755764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.87046     Document Type: Article

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