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Neuroimaging for Headache

Neuroimaging for Headache6 Jul10 min

A 25-year-old woman presents for follow-up with a 12-year history of intermittent headache reported as unilateral throbbing pain with nausea, photophobia, phonophobia that usually lasts about 12 to 24 hours. At the onset of her headache, she takes oral high dose ibuprofen with Sumitriptan reporting, "my headache is usually gone within an hour or so." She reports no particular pattern to the headache trigger and denies headache prodrome. Family history is positive for mother and sister with si...