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Severe headache is often a symptom of major complications of acute head injury such as subarachnoid haemorrhage, subdural bleeding or meningitis. Even if these are excluded, however, chronic persistent headache is by far the most common symptom to follow head injury (Cartlidge and Shaw 1981). Its increasing prominence in recent years may be attributed to the greater risk of head injury in an industrial society, and to the establishment of compulsory compensation insurance for the consequences of injuries sustained at work.
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Peatfield, R. (1986). Post-traumatic Headache. In: Headache. Clinical Medicine and the Nervous System. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3127-4_13
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