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Open Access 01-12-2015 | Editorial

Cluster headache: a quasi-rare disorder needing a reappraisal

Authors: Paolo Martelletti, Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas

Published in: The Journal of Headache and Pain | Issue 1/2015

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This Editorial introduces the 2015 Open Thematic Series dedicated to Cluster Headache (CH) and other Rare Headaches. For too long researchers have focused their attention on other most popular, sometimes clumsy or foggy forms of headache, overlooking this important and quasi-rare headache disorder [1]. …

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Title: Cluster headache: a quasi-rare disorder needing a reappraisal
Authors: Paolo Martelletti
Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas
Publication date: 01-12-2015
Publisher: Springer Milan
Published in: The Journal of Headache and Pain / Issue 1/2015
Print ISSN: 1129-2369
Electronic ISSN: 1129-2377
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s10194-015-0545-1

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