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Headache in the emergency department—how to identify patients at risk of serious underlying pathology

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boxed-textLocker TE et al. (2006) The utility of clinical features in patients presenting with nontraumatic headache: an investigation of adult patients attending an emergency department. Headache 46: 954–961

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  1. BM Grosberg is an assistant professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of the Inpatient Headache Program at the Montefiore Headache Center, Bronx, NY, USA.,

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