[Acute headaches].
Etiologic diagnosis of acute headache is made by accurate history of the pain and systematic examination in search of associated signs: the aim of this reasoning procedure is identification of secondary (organic) headache disorders which are infrequent but are needing urgent evaluation and care from primary headaches whose various methods of treatment are specific.
Mihout
B
B
Département de neurologie, Centre hospitalier universitaire, Hôpital Charles-Nicolle, 76031 Rouen. Bruno.Mihout@chu-rouen.fr
Triquenot
A
A
D000208:Acute Disease; D004630:Emergencies; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans
Céphalées aiguës.