If the patient's history meets the criteria for migraine, no red-flag signs or symptoms are
identified (Box 1), and the results of the neurologic examination are normal, no further …

ContextIn assessing the patient with headache, clinicians are often faced with 2 important
questions: Is this headache a migraine? Does this patient require neuroimaging? The …

MIGRAINE IS A COMMON, CHRONIC-INTERMITTENT neurovascular headache disorder
character-ized by moderate to severe headache attacks and various combinations of …

To the editor: I read with extreme interest the paper by Singh et al.(1). This study is a case
series of 18 patients who had headaches characterized by attacks of migraine exclusively …

Migraine is a common disorder with a prevalence of 17.2 percent in females, 6 percent in
males, and 13 percent overall in the adult population [1]. It is a chronic disorder with …

Background A recent systematic review of the duration of migraine aura reported that aura
symptoms may last longer than one hour in a significant proportion of patients [1]. Here we …

Objective: Headache in childhood and adult age group is a common complaint. Nowadays,
cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become the commonly performed first step …

MRI scan MRI scan The use of neuroimaging as a diagnostic tool remains at the discretion
of the clinician, necessitating more research to improve clinical understanding of primary …

Guidelines recommend imaging only headache patients with sinister features in the history
or on examination. We prospectively collected data on imaging newly presenting patients to …

Background Migraine is one of the most common complaints encountered in neurology
clinics. Accurate diagnoses of migraine are usually informed by the patient's history, and …