Objectives: To determine causes of headaches in patients who presented to the emergency
department (ED) and underwent neuroimaging, and to determine the clinical features …

Background: Headache is among the most prevalent complaints in patients presenting to the
emergency department (ED). Clinicians are faced with the difficult task to differentiate …

Introduction: Headache is common at emergency services and neuroimaging can help in
timely diagnosis of life-threatening pathologies, although overuse can generate increased …

Background Most patients presenting to an emergency department (ED) with nontraumatic
headache have benign primary headaches, but a small number of cases have a serious …

Neuroimaging is warranted to evaluate headaches when patients present to an emergency
department with signs or symptoms of an intracranial lesion. These signs or symptoms …

Background and Purpose Deciding whether or not to perform neuroimaging in primary
headache is a dilemma for headache physicians. The aim of this study was to identify …

The aim of this study was to measure prevalence, to describe underlying etiologies, and to
assess radiological findings, focusing on significant intracranial abnormality (sICA). This was …

Headache is very common. In the United Kingdom, it accounts for 4.4% of primary care
consultations, 30% of referrals to neurology services and 0.5–0.8% of alert patients …

Headache represents the second neurological cause of emergency room admittance. The
differentiation of the small number of patients with life-threatening headaches from the …

Results A total of 279 patients (190 women and 89 men) were included in the study. No
patient without any red flags had severe abnormalities in the neuroimaging study and, of …