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- (-) Fever
HEADACHE - DIAGNOSIS: SECONDARY HEADACHE: CHEMICAL
(DR RABO – TRANS by PRETTYVEGANDUGMISSALMONDMILK, TYPE (SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE)
PREPARED by CAYRAPF,
MIDTERMS February 2017) No fever
(+) meningeal signs
Young patient, sudden severe onset
2 Types of Headaches: PRIMARY HEADACHE
1) Primary Headaches CT scan (to rule out other cause)
- No known cause No test will tell you it’s migraine, tension
2) Secondary Headaches No lab test will point out primary headache, as long
- There is a cause (it’s secondary to something), It is as you fulfill the criteria for migraine, no red flag signs
present because of another condition. & normal neuro exam → primary headache (based
- (ex.) Headache because of a tumor on History & P.E)
- In elderly, don’t think of primary headache agad. Pattern-based
You always have to think of secondary before Migraine, Tension or Cluster Headache
primary.
The 1st thing you should do is get a comprehensive, PAIN SENSITIVE STRUCTURES
detailed & extensive HISTORY (from the history Blood vessels, nerves
malalaman mo na yung mga RED FLAG signs. Skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscles, extracranial
RED FLAG SIGNS OF HEADACHE arteries & periosteum of the skull
- Will point out that it is secondary headache Intracranial venous sinuses & their large tributaries,
CLUSTER HEADACHE
Rare
Common in men
Pain is left deep within the eye, it is very deep that it is
painful
Typically with autonomic manifestation
o Rhinorrhea
o Conjunctiva are red
o Etc.
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