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Published in: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2/2009

Open Access 01-04-2009 | Letter to the Editor

Concurrence of primary headaches: Lane and Davies (2006) revisited

Author: Andrew J. Larner

Published in: The Journal of Headache and Pain | Issue 2/2009

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Lane and Davies [1] have proposed the hypothesis that all primary headaches are manifestations of a single fundamental pathophysiological process, the migraine mechanism; and hence, lie within a continuum defined by the parameters of headache intensity, inverse frequency and duration, and trigeminal autonomic features. Their argument was based in part on symptomatic overlap between primary headache types, transformation between types over time, existence of intermediate forms, and concurrence of multiple primary headaches in individual patients. …
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Metadata
Title
Concurrence of primary headaches: Lane and Davies (2006) revisited
Author
Andrew J. Larner
Publication date
01-04-2009
Publisher
Springer Milan
Published in
The Journal of Headache and Pain / Issue 2/2009
Print ISSN: 1129-2369
Electronic ISSN: 1129-2377
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10194-009-0106-6

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