Headache Ddx

Question 1

Headache due to trauma or injury

Answer 1

TBI
Whiplash
Craniotomy

Question 2

Headache due to cranial or cervical vascular

Answer 2

Ischemic Stroke
TIA
Crebral Hemorrhage
Cranial Venous Disorder
Intracranial vasculopathy
Pituitary Apoplexy

Question 3

Headache atrrtibuted to nonvascular intracranial disorder

Answer 3

High or Low Cerebral spinal pressure
Neurosarcoidosis
Aseptic Meningitis
Intracranial Neoplasia
Carcinomatous Meningitis
Thalmus, Pituitary dysfunction
Intrathecal injection
Epileptic seizure
Chiari Malformation

Question 4

Headache due to substance or withdrawl

Answer 4

Exsposure to a substance
Medication overuse headache
Substance withdrawl

Question 5

Headache attributed to an infection

Answer 5

Intracranial Infection
Systemic Infection

Question 6

Headache attributed to disorder of Homeostasis

Answer 6

Hypoxia
Hypercapnia
Dialysis
Aterial hypertension
Hypothyroidism
Fasting
Cardiac Cephalagia

Question 7

Headache according to the facial structures

Answer 7

Disorder of the cranial bone
Temporomandibular disorder
Inflammation of the stylohoid ligament

Question 8

Headache atrritbuted to Pssychiatric conditions

Answer 8

Somatization disorder
Psychotic disorder

Question 9

Headache Red Flags

Answer 9

“Worst” headache of my life
Headache after 45
“Different kind of headache”
Headache with (Altered LOC, Weakness, Ataxia, Altered Cordination)
Headache associated with numbness, tingling
Headache with cranial nerve deficits
Abnormal reflexes
Signs of meningeal irritation (Babinskis reflex)
Fever
Hypertension
Tenderness of pulsation of temporal artieries