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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Acute Headache
• Bone, soft tissue: referred pain from scalp, eyes, ears, sinuses, nose, teeth, pharynx, cervical spine, temporomandibular joint
• Decreased ICP: after ventriculoperitoneal shunt, lumbar puncture, cerebrospinal fluid leak from basilar skull fracture
• First migraine
• Increased intracranial pressure (ICP): trauma, hemorrhage, tumor, hydrocephalus, pseudotumor cerebri, abscess, arachnoid cyst, cerebral edema
• Infection: systemic infection, encephalitis, sinusitis, others
• Meningeal inflammation: meningitis, leukemia, subarachnoid or subdural hemorrhage
• Vascular: vasculitis, arteriovenous malformation, hypertension, cerebrovascular accident
• Bone, soft tissue: referred pain from scalp, eyes, ears, sinuses, nose, teeth, pharynx, cervical spine, temporomandibular joint
• Decreased ICP: after ventriculoperitoneal shunt, lumbar puncture, cerebrospinal fluid leak from basilar skull fracture
• First migraine
• Increased intracranial pressure (ICP): trauma, hemorrhage, tumor, hydrocephalus, pseudotumor cerebri, abscess, arachnoid cyst, cerebral edema
• Infection: systemic infection, encephalitis, sinusitis, others
• Meningeal inflammation: meningitis, leukemia, subarachnoid or subdural hemorrhage
• Vascular: vasculitis, arteriovenous malformation, hypertension, cerebrovascular accident
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