While usually not life threatening, headaches can be debilitating. And they are often a symptom more serious conditions. With pictures obtained from PET, CT, MRI, and other modern imaging techniques An Atlas of Headache presents full color illustrations and a clinician's review on the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of headaches. It provides you with a complete and comprehensive picture of the state-of-the-art in this field.
The End of the World began on a Thursday night in October, just after eight in the evening… The Amok is driving people out of their minds, turning them into zombies and causing riots in the streets. A solitary diner leaves a Cardiff restaurant, his mission to protect the Principal leading him to a secret base beneath a water tower. Everyone has a headache; there's something in Davey Morgan's shed; and the church of St Mary-in-the-Dust, demolished in 1840, has reappeared – though it's not due until 2011.
Part of the Oxford American Pain Library, this concise handbook aims to provide primary care doctors and other health care professionals with practical information about the diagnosis and management of headaches in their patients. The book covers the classification of headaches and provides shortcuts to making an accurate diagnosis, along with recommendations for the proper utilization of diagnostic procedures. The author discusses all common headache conditions: migraine; chronic migraine; status migraine; cluster and related headaches; tension headaches; sinus headaches ...
Headache - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to headache. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to headache
In its different presentations, headache is one of the most common symptoms seen by family practitioners. The difficulty is in diagnosing the cause of the headache so that the appropriate treatment is provided, or if referral to a specialist is the recommended course of action.
