title: Secondary headaches.
abstract: In this article, we develop an approach to the headache patient based upon pattern of headache. Headache can be acute recurrent, acute, chronic progressive, and chronic nonprogressive. Within each pattern we go through the differential diagnosis, with a focus on secondary causes of headache. Although most patients presenting with headache will end up having migraine, we must be able to recognize the other causes when they present.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics and Neurology, Pediatric Headache Clinic, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Greene Street, Room N5W69, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. jgladstein@peds.umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gladstein
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006261:Headache / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans