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MIGRAINE AND OTHER HEADACHES
Migraine and Other Headaches
Your Questions Answered
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By
Andrew Dowson, MB, BS, Director of the King's Headache Service, King's College Hospital, London, UK

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Your Questions Answered,

Description
This book, written in the popular Q and A format of the Your Questions Answered series, will provide sufficient information for a primary care doctor to be able to understand and treat patients with migraine. Answers are presented in a succinct, accessible style, with emphasis on evidence-based, up-to-date knowledge. Case studies are used to help illustrate patients' frequently asked questions.

Audience
The Your Questions Answered books are designed for general practitioners and other health practitioners (including nurses), providing front line care.

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Headache in primary care
3. Key clinical features of migraine
4. Diagnosis of migraine and other headache disorders
5. Migraine treatments
6. Management of migraine in clinical practice
7. Management of non-migraine headaches in primary care
8. Setting up a primary care headache team
9. Future developments in migraine management
References
Appendix 1. Antimigraine drugs
Appendix 2. Useful addresses and websites
Index

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 272 pages, publication date: JAN-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07339-7
ISBN-10: 0-443-07339-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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