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Migraine in the Emergency Department

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A 36-year-old woman comes to the emergency department because of acute throbbing headache that began 12 h previously and is associated with nausea and vomiting. She has a past history of migraine headaches with visual aura dating to age 14.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Justin M. DeLange DO & Jerry W. Swanson MD

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Correspondence to Jerry W. Swanson MD .

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  1. Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Aksel Siva

  2. Headache Medical Center Seilerstaette Linz, Hospital Sisters of Charity, Linz, Austria

    Christian Lampl

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DeLange, J.M., Swanson, J.W. (2015). Migraine in the Emergency Department. 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_31

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