Thunderclap headache

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7890, 2013, Pages

  Ducros, Anne ^a   Bousser, Marie Germaine ^b  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^b Lariboisiere Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; NIMODIPINE; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BATH; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXERCISE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

BRAIN; HEADACHE DISORDERS, PRIMARY; HUMANS; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872300822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e8557     Document Type: Review

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