Medication-overuse headache in patients with cluster headache

@article{Paemeleire2008MedicationoveruseHI,
  title={Medication-overuse headache in patients with cluster headache},
  author={Koen Paemeleire and Stefan Evers and Peter J. Goadsby},
  journal={Current Pain and Headache Reports},
  year={2008},
  volume={12},
  pages={122-127}
}
Cluster headache (CH) is associated with the most severe pain of the primary headache disorders. Barriers to optimal care include misdiagnosis, diagnostic delay, undertreatment, and mismanagement. Medication-over-use headache (MOH) may further complicate CH and may present as increased CH frequency or development of a background headache, which may be featureless or have some migrainous quality. A personal or familial history of migraine appears to be strongly associated with the development of… 
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