A 33-year-old woman with severe postpartum headache
Journal Title: Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine - Year 2013, Vol 1, Issue 1
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Patient was a 33-year-old woman underwent her first time cesarean section combined with spinal epidural anesthesia 5 days before and discharged the day after with good condition. She got severe headache with pain score about 8-9, 2 days after discharge from hos-pital. Her headache was severe, bilateral, pulsatile and almost likely sudden onset accompanied with nausea that mildly progressed after starting
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