title: [Cluster headache differential diagnosis].
abstract: Cluster headache is characterized by disabling stereotyped headache. Early diagnosis allows appropriate treatment, unfortunately diagnostic errors are frequent. The main differential diagnoses are other primary or essential headaches. Migraine, more frequent and whose diagnosis is carried by excess, trigeminal neuralgia or other trigemino-autonomic cephalgia. Vascular or tumoral underlying condition can mimic cluster headache, neck and brain imaging is recommended, ideally MRI.
authors.affiliation: CHU de Rouen, hôpital Charles-Nicolle, service de neurologie, consultation céphalées, 76031 Rouen cedex, France. Electronic address: evelyne.massardier@chu-rouen.fr.
authors.forename: Evelyne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Guégan-Massardier
authors.affiliation: CHU de Rouen, hôpital Charles-Nicolle, service de neurologie, consultation céphalées, 76031 Rouen cedex, France.
authors.forename: Cécile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Laubier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003027:Cluster Headache / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005156:Facial Neuralgia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000145:classification; D051270:Headache Disorders, Primary / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020326:Migraine without Aura / Q000175:diagnosis; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000175:diagnosis; D055815:Young Adult