Cluster headache is a recurring, intense head pain related to migraine. This publication aims to be a standard textbook on the subject, and is intended for all physicians interested in headache, together with all headache and pain clinics throughout the world. The author, an international expert on the topic, has undertaken a complete review of the field. The book covers cluster headache, chronic cluster headache, and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania.
Cluster headache is a recurring, intense head pain related to migraine. This publication aims to be a standard textbook on the subject, and is intended for all physicians interested in headache, together with all headache and pain clinics throughout the world. The author, an international expert on the topic, has undertaken a complete review of the field. The book covers cluster headache, chronic cluster headache, and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania.
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-0-7020-1554-0 (9780702015540)
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Part 1 Cluster headache: terminology; headaches described under other headings; classifications and definition; cluster headache and similar headaches - early descriptions; comments concerning priority; previous materials; large materials; prevalence of cluster headache; familial occurrence of cluster headache; familial occurrence of migraine; co-existence of cluster headache and migraine; some characteristics of the patient; temporal aspects - various definitions; clinical appearance; partly attack-independent complications and consequences; attack provocation; diagnosis and differential diagnosis; treatment; various tests and examinations carried out in cluster headache; pathogensis. Part 2 Chronic cluster headache: terminology; definitions; clinical materials; some clinical characteristics; various studies carried out in chronic cluster headache; treatment; the status of chronic cluster headache. Part 3 Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH): nomenclature and terminology; the history of the emergence of a "new" headache; classification; the various forms of CPH; symptomatology and characteristics of CPH; differential diagnosis; does CPH have a psychogenic background; the link to cluster headache; mechanical precipitation of attacks; significance of trigger mechanisms; tests and studies carried out in CPH; status and future; the so-called indomethacin responsive headache; has CPH been described prior to 1947? treatment; pathogenesis.
