RT Book, Section
A1 Cutrer, F. Michael
A1 Mathew, Paul G.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
A2 Wootton, R. Joshua
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1131932575
T1 Pathophysiology of Headaches
T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071766838
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131932575
RD 2024/04/25
AB Headaches  are  estimated  to  affect  more  than  90%  of  the  general  population  at  some  point  in  their  lives1  and  may  be  encountered  by  physicians  in  a  wide  variety  of  clinical  settings.  Headaches  can  be  divided  into  two  major  categories.  The  overwhelming  majority  of  recurrent  headaches  are  primary  headache  disorders,  in  which  no  identifiable  underlying  cause  can  be  found.  Secondary  headache  disorders  are  symptomatic  of  an  underlying  pathological  cause.  Secondary  headaches  can  be  due  to  causes  such  as  transient  viral  illness,  intracranial  tumor,  aneurysm,  or  drug  withdrawal  (for  differential  diagnosis  of  secondary  headache  disorder,  see  Cutrer2).  Prevalence  studies  indicate  that  a  benign  process,  such  as  a  mild  febrile  illness  or  alcohol  withdrawal,  usually  causes  secondary  headaches  and  that  the  lifetime  prevalence  of  headache  resulting  from  more  ominous  intracranial  structural  lesions  is  less  than  2%.3