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Table 2 ICHD-2 diagnosis [5] for the 851 headache patients presenting from August 2007 to July 2008 to the ED of Papageorgiou Hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece

From: Headache patients in the emergency department of a Greek tertiary care hospital

Diagnosis

n (%)

Tension type headache (chronic or episodic)

286 (33.6)

Migraine

131 (15.4)

Cluster headache

10 (1.2)

Secondary headache (due to viral infection, anxiety, hypertension, sinusitis, alcohol ingestion, probably SAH or meningitis)

188 (22.1)

Headache not other specified

236 (27.7)

Total

851 (100)