A new textbook on headaches and facial pain.

November 21, 2024

It’s an honor to have contributed, alongside Andrew Blumenfeld and Sait Ashina, a chapter on Botox injections to the upcoming textbook Headache and Facial Pain Medicine. Edited by Sait Ashina of Harvard Medical School and published by McGraw Hill, the book is set for release in 2025 but is already available on Amazon.

The book includes chapters on Primary Headaches, Secondary Headaches, Facial Pain and Cranial Neuralgias, Special Treatments and Procedures, Special Populations, and Special Topics. It is an excellent textbook for health care providers.

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Alexander Mauskop, MD
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