Common problems. Headache.
In general practice, headache presents as a problem with many causes and is seen from a different perspective than in specialist practice. Common headaches include tension, cervical dysfunction and 'mixed' headache. Consideration of the diurnal patterns in the history is a key to diagnosis. Causes such as cerebrovascular accidents, space occupying lesions, temporal arteritis and meningitis must not be missed.
Murtagh
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Department of Community Medicine, Box Hill Hospital, Monash University.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans