Fast Facts : Headaches / / Richard Peatfield, David W. Dodick

• Autore: Peatfield Richard
• Pubblicazione: Basel, : S. Karger, 2002
• Edizione: 2nd edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (104 pages) : 30 figures
• Soggetto topico: Neurology
• Sommario/riassunto: The management of people suffering with headaches forms a substantial part of the workload of the family physician and the practising neurologist. While some patients can perform normally using self-medication, headache can be a symptom of a potentially serious illness and disabling headaches, either continuous or as intermittent attacks, require careful assessment and treatment. 'Fast Facts: Headaches' equips the primary care physician with the knowledge required to accurately investigate, assess and treat (or refer) the patient presenting with disabling primary headache. • Enables physicians to distinguish between the benign and potentially life-threatening condition • An expert guide to differential diagnosis • Reviews current processes of assessment, summarises current thinking on pathogenesis and covers management of common forms of disabling headache • Key points are summarised at each chapter-end and clear, simple diagrams and tables support clinical information Contents: • Differential diagnosis • Epidemiology • Clinical features of migraine and tension headaches • Mechanisms of migraine • Precipitating causes • Acute treatment • Prophylactic treatment • Chronic daily headache • Cluster headache; Post-traumatic headache • Future trends
• Altri titoli varianti: Fast Facts
• Titolo autorizzato: Fast Facts: Headaches
• ISBN: 1-912776-01-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996339102003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno