Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Daily Headache
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Diagnosis and management of chronic daily headache.
Chronic daily headache (CDH) is a descriptive term that encompasses multiple headache diagnoses and affects approximately 4% of the general adult population. Chronic daily headache results in significant pain and suffering with substantial impact on quality of life, and enormous economic costs to society. Although most patients with primary CDH suffer from chronic migraine or chronic tension-ty...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Neurology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0271-8235,1098-9021
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1249224