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Edited by James W Kance, Peter J Goadsby. Published by Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2005, £34.99 (hardback), pp 392. ISBN 0-7506-7530-6
As a general rule, it is safe to assume that any textbook entering a seventh edition does so on its merits and must be worth reading. The latest edition of the classic Mechanism and Management of Headache by Lance and Goadsby does not disappoint. It is occasioned not just by the passage of time but also by advances in the field of headache that make a new edition necessary. Among these, the long-awaited revision of the International Classification of Headache Disorders is the most important, as it has created some entirely new headache entities and significantly altered criteria for others.1 New information about the structural consequences of seemingly benign headache disorders – iron deposition in the …