Headache and Facial Pain
Headache and Facial Pain
Headache and Facial Pain
Background
Epidemiology
HEADACHE
Primary Headaches
Migraine Migraine with and without Aura Migraine and Sinus Headache Migraine Treatment: Acute and Preventive Chronic Daily Headache and Migraine Tension-Type Headache Episodic tension-type headache Chronic tension-type headache Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgia Including Cluster Headache Paroxysmal Hemicrania Short-lasting Unilateral Neuralgiform Headache Attacks with Conjunctival Injection and Tearing (SUNCT) Other Primary Headaches
Secondary Headaches
Headache Attributed to Head and Neck Trauma Headache and Hematomas Postoperative Headache Postcraniotomy Headache Headache Attributed to Cranial or Cervical Vascular Disorder Acute Subarachnoid Hemorrhageand Thunderclap Headache Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis Headache Attributed to Nonvascular Intracranial Disorders Intracranial Hypertension (Pseudotumor Cerebri) Headache Attributed to Low Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure
Secondary .
Headache or Facial Pain Attributed to Disorder of Cranium, Neck, Eyes, Ears, Nose, Sinuses, Teeth, Mouth, or Other Facial or Cranial Structures Sinus Headache Temporomandibular Disorders
FACIAL PAIN
Highlights
Migraine underlies most of the common headaches in clinical practice, including sinus headache. Because of cranial autonomic symptoms or seasonal periodicity associated with some of the primary headaches, the specialist in allergy or diseases of the ear, nose, and throat may be the first contact a patient makes. MRI is the gold-standard radiographic study for headache diagnosis. CT is the test of choice for acute, thunderclap, or new-onset headache in the emergency department to rule out hemorrhage. Patients with daily headaches typically have a history of episodic migraine. CH and the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias typically are first seen with shorterduration, focal, and side-locked head pain associated with ipsilateral autonomic features. These may mimic pathology in orbital structures or the sinuses. Secondary headaches do not have distinctive features of pain in terms of location, duration, or quality, yet for some, associations make the diagnosis and evaluation relatively straightforward. Preexisting primary headache may worsen in frequency or severity in relation to a secondary headache.
Highlights
Posterior fossa procedures, especially suboccipital craniotomies and retromastoid surgeries performed for acoustic neuromas, may result in chronic headache. Headache is not a reliable indicator of ischemic cerebrovascular disease or its results. The sudden onset of severe generalized headache, either the first or the worst, should alert the practitioner immediately to the possibility of subarachnoid hematoma. Temporal arteritis occurs in patients older than 60 years with complaints of daily moderate to severe headache, scalp sensitivity, generalized fatigue, and feelings of being unwell in nonspecific ways. Sedimentation rate is routinely elevated. Sinus headache is accompanied by pain in the face, ears, or teeth accompanied by clinical, endoscopic, and radiologic or laboratory evidence of acute or acute-on-chronic rhinosinusitis that develops simultaneously and resolves within 7 days after infection remits or is successfully treated.