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RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. -- Patients who think they have a sinus headache may actually be suffering from a migraine, Dr. Roger K. Cady said at a meeting sponsored by the Diamond Headache Clinic.
Migraine presentations can vary in real-life clinical settings, leading the doctor as well as the patient to think the problem is a sinus headache. But in his experience, at least 80% of patients in a general practice who experience episodic, recurrent headaches that they attribute to sinus infection or congestion will fulfill the diagnostic criteria for migraine, said Dr. Cady, a headache specialist in Springfield, Mo.
Clinicians should consider migraine as a likely…