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Are the current diagnostic criteria for cluster headache too restrictive for clinical practice?

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boxed-textvan Vliet JA et al. (2006) Evaluating the IHS criteria for cluster headache—a comparison between patients meeting all criteria and patients failing one criterion. Cephalalgia 26: 241–245

The International Headache Society diagnostic criteria for cluster headache have to be interpreted with some flexibility, as a notable minority of sufferers do not wholly fulfill the criteria

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