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F.A. is a female 43-year-old lawyer, with a 30-year history of migraine. Her mother and her identical twin sister also suffered from migraine. Her mother, who died of brain cancer at 77 years, had suffered from migraine since her menopause, with low-frequency crisis. The temporal development of her migraine in comparison with that of her twin sister has been dichotomous.
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Negro, A., Martelletti, P. (2015). Chronic Migraine Complicated by Medication Overuse Headache. 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_5
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