Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain - Hardcover

9780195135183: Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195135180 ISBN 13: 9780195135183

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Headaches represent one of the most common medical conditions and one of the most frequent reasons for patients seeking medical care. Wolff's Headache has become a classic in the field of head pain. Providing a compendium of facts, it stands above other texts as one of the most definitive and comprehensive textbooks on diagnosis and management. Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain 7E provides a comprehensive overview of headache disorders. The contributors are the acknowledged world leaders in their fields. The new edition reflects the enormous growth of knowledge regarding the classification of epidemiology, mechanisms, and treatment of headaches. The book provides both practical clinical advice and a clear overview of the science which provides the foundation for that advice.

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About the Author:

Stephen D. Silberstein is at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Richard B. Lipton is at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.

Review:

"It stands above others of its kind as one of the most definitive and comprehensive medical textbooks about headache diagnosis and management."--The Journal of Family Practice

"This book remains a classic in clinical science-the standard guide to the study and treatment of the patient with headache."--The New England Journal of Medicine

"A very high standard is achieved throughout the book. It is comprehensive, authoritative, and lucidly written, with an excellent coverage of the literature. Indeed a classic."--Psychosomatics

"This neurological classic has clearly maintained the great tradition of scholarship set by Dr. H. Wolff.Extraordinary, complete presentation of the subject matter."--Annals of Internal Medicine

"An excellent, up-to-date, and readable reference text. Because of its broad scope it will be equally useful to all practitioners who deal with patients with headaches, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, neurologists, and neurosurgeons."--The Journal of Nervous and Mental
Disease

"Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain has been the dominant text on headache for nearly half a century. Printing of this sixth edition gives testimony to its long-term success as a leading source of instruction for generations of physicians in effectively dealing with the complex problems of
headache management"--Journal of the American Medical Association

"Doctors Dalessio and Silberstein, highly-respected clinicians and investigators themselves, have assembled a first-rate author list to cover the field and continue the celebrated tradition of Harold G. Wolff."--Headache

"...maintains the value of the original text by remaining a clinically useful, easily managed resource."--JAMA2002

"This is the definitive text on headache..."--Journal of Neurology

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