Headache Disorders

 

 

 

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Primary Headache - in order of frequency

  • Tension-type
  • Migraine
  • Cluster type



Secondary Causes of Headache


Traction causes of Headache

  • Thrombotic and ischemic disease Neoplasmas
  • Hematomas
  • Hemorrhage
  • Neoplasms
  • Expanding disease in the eyes, ears, nose and throat structures


  • Inflammatory causes of headache
  • Giant cell arteritis with involvement of the cranial arterial structures
  • Collagen-vascular disorders
  • Infections of the meninges and surrounding structures of the head and neck
  • Brain abscess (may cause headache due to expansion as well)
  • Inflammatory disease of the venous system
  • Maligant hypertension with vasculitis
  • Inflammatory disease of the temporomandibular jont
  • Cranial neuralgias




Post-Traumatic headache
Miscellaneous


Noncephalic infections

  • Influenza
  • Febrille disorders

    Metabolic and endocrine disorders

  • Endocrine - pheochromocytoma
  • Carcinoid tumors
  • Chemical and pharmacologic agents, mastocytosis

 

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