Headaches - Pictures

Question 1

Answer 1

*answers should be more general than answer card, which is more detailed*

Question 2

What causes these symptoms?

Answer 2

Rupture of Congenital Aneurysm

Question 3

Answer 3

Kerning Sign - signs of meningeal irritation

Question 4

What sign is this and what does a (+) signify?

Answer 4

Brudzinski Sign - meningitis

Question 5

Answer 5

aneurysm

Question 6

Answer 6

Brain Tumor - intracranial pressure triad

Question 7

Answer 7

Brain Tumor - variable focal manifestations

Question 8

Patient presenting with these symptoms most likely has?

Answer 8

Cluster headache

Question 9

Patient presenting with these symptoms has?

Describe when you would expect this to occur as well as the frequency of what’s going on.

Answer 9

Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania

typically nocturnal

average frequency - 10-30 in 24 hours, lasting 5-20 minutes

Question 10

What does this picture show regarding pain sensitivity and referral?

Answer 10

Afferent nerves from intracranial and extracranial structures of anterior 2/3 of head and somatic pain afferent nerves from forehead and scalp are carried by ophthalmic nerve. These neurons refer pain from intracranial structures to forhead, scalp, or retrobulbar sites.

Question 11

What does this picture show regarding pain sensitvity and referral?

Answer 11

Afferent nerves from occipital region, ear, and neck and from dura of posterior fossa and vertebrobasilar arteries are carried by dorsal roots of C1-3 spinal gangia, accounting for pain referral to these sites.

Question 12

Answer 12

Basilar artery migraine

Question 13

Answer 13

Tension type headache