Common Pitfalls in the Evaluation and Management of Headache: Case-Based Learning

Elizabeth W. Loder; Rebecca C. Burch; Paul B. Rizzoli

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139519335

Common Pitfalls in the Evaluation and Management of Headache

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Elizabeth W. Loder, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Rebecca C. Burch, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Paul B. Rizzoli, Faulkner Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781139519335
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519335

Subjects:: Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Medicine

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Although headache is one of the most common complaints that patients bring to their clinicians, few physicians feel confident about its clinical evaluation and management. Is it a problem in its own right, or the presenting symptom of a serious medical condition? Loder, Rizzoli and Burch bring a practical case-based approach to this complex ailment, highlighting specific areas of diagnostic uncertainty in headache evaluation and treatment. Each case is taken from real-world clinical practice and reviews the diagnostic and treatment process in a systematic manner, identifying common challenges and pitfalls and describing newly issued treatment guidelines. Written in a question and answer format, this concise and useful guide in the Common Pitfalls series provides a step-by-step guide for everyday clinical practice, invaluable to anyone dealing with headache on a front-line basis.

'This outstanding set of cases and discussions addresses questions that everyone in the practice of medicine has pondered at one time or another. This significantly adds to the options for primary care clinicians that go beyond the discussions in standard neurology books.'

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Common Pitfalls in the Evaluation and Management of Headache - Half title page
pp i-ii

Common Pitfalls in the Evaluation and Management of Headache - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-x

1 - Confusing one benign headache with another
pp 1-19

2 - Mistakingprimary headache for another condition
pp 20-37

3 - Missing dangerous causes of headache
pp 38-53

4 - Pitfallsin diagnostic testing: imaging and lumbar puncture
pp 54-72

5 - Pitfalls in diagnostic testing:blood, urine, and other tests
pp 73-83

6 - When historical or examination findings are missed or misinterpreted
pp 84-99

7 - Errorsin management of acute headache
pp 100-118

8 - Pitfallsin drug therapy to prevent headaches
pp 119-144

9 - Pitfallsin nonpharmacologic treatment of headache
pp 145-161

10 - Challengesand special situations in headache management
pp 162-174

11 - Medicolegalpitfallsin headache management
pp 175-185

Index
pp 186-192

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