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Emergency Room Headache: A Case with Primary Thunderclap Headache Including Differential Diagnosis from Secondary Ones

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A 41-year-old man was admitted to the general emergency room (ER) because of an extremely severe headache of instantaneous onset (1 min at most), probably the worst ever in his life. He had described of having two previous similar episodes within a few days all during sexual intercourse, including the final one that brought him to the ER.

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    Dominique Valade

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    Christian Lampl

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Valade, D. (2015). Emergency Room Headache: A Case with Primary Thunderclap Headache Including Differential Diagnosis from Secondary Ones. In: Siva, A., Lampl, C. (eds) Case-Based Diagnosis and Management of Headache Disorders. Headache. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06886-2_26

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