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Chapter 4 in the current International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-IIIβ) includes a number of primary headache disorders that are clinically heterogeneous [1]. In general, their pathogenesis is still poorly understood and their treatments are suggested on the basis of anecdotal reports or uncontrolled trials. The chapter includes some clinical entities, such as primary stabbing headache or hypnic headache, that are primary in most cases, together with, for instance, primary thunderclap headache or primary cough headache, entities where our efforts must be directed to rule out a secondary origin. Two headache disorders which appeared in Chap. 13 in the previous Classification have now been moved to this chapter: cold stimulus headache and external-pressure headache, while hemicrania continua has been now moved to Chap. 3 as evidence indicates that it rightly belongs to trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias [1].
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Riesco, N., García-Cabo, C., Pascual, J. (2016). Pharmacotherapy for Other Primary Headache Disorders. In: Mitsikostas, D., Paemeleire, K. (eds) Pharmacological Management of Headaches. Headache. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19911-5_12
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