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Other Non-migraine Primary Headache Disorders

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This chapter has the important function to describe the other primary headache disorders like thunderclap headache, exercise headache and sexual headache and other primary forms, but above all as forms that must alert the clinician because they can also be signs of secondary forms. The educational target is clinicians that, observing very violent and unusual forms of headache, can immediately orient themselves in the definition of primary or secondary forms, since errors in this diagnostic process could be life-threatening.

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