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Open Access 01-12-2015 | Letter to the Editor

Questioning on consistency of a Stagnation Scale in Medication Overuse Headache: one more added to a plea of emperor’s clothes?

Authors: Marco Innamorati, Maurizio Pompili, Paolo Martelletti

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

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With great pleasure we write this Reply letter to the considerations, all of them indeed very interesting and thought-provoking, from Crombez relatively to a paper of validation of an existing instrument suitable/appropriate to our vision of a chronic migraine patient’s complexity [1]. …

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Title: Questioning on consistency of a Stagnation Scale in Medication Overuse Headache: one more added to a plea of emperor’s clothes?
Authors: Marco Innamorati
Maurizio Pompili
Paolo Martelletti
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/s10194-015-0498-4

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