Headache and brain tumors

Kirby, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s11910-007-0005-7

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“…Kirby and Purdy focused on more unusual headache types, especially the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TAC), which were not added to the ICHD until 2004. These are a unique group of headaches, which have been described with tumors located in several specific places such as the pituitary fossa, the cavernous sinus, hypothalamus, the ponto‐cerebellar angle, and the orbit.…”

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Mechanism of Brain Tumor Headache

Taylor

2014

Headache

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There is an increasing overlap between the primary and secondary headaches and they may actually share a similar biological mechanism. While there can be some criticism that the experimental work with dural and arterial stimulation produced head pain and not actual headache, when considered with the clinical observations about headache type, coupled with improvement after treatment of the primary tumor, we believe that traction on these structures, coupled with increased intracranial pressure, is clearly part of the genesis of brain tumor headache and may also involve peripheral sensitization with neurogenic inflammation as well as a component of central sensitization through trigeminovascular afferents on the meninges and cranial vessels.

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Mechanism of Brain Tumor Headache

Taylor

2014

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“…This association was not statistically significant (p value 0.4). Previous studies have stated that posterior fossa tumour causes headache more often than a supratentorial tumour (Purdy RA, Kirby S. [6] ).…”

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The Clinical Characteristics of Secondary Headache

Shanmugasundaram¹,

Manickavasagam²,

Gobinathan³

et al. 2017

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“…In cases of patients who are medically unfit for surgery or in whom the risks of surgery outweigh the benefits, a conservative approach should include prevention and management of medication overuse. Since patients with a history of a primary headache disorder more frequently exhibit brain tumour-related headaches, conventional therapy of the original headache should be employed (27). Although studies describing clinical efficacy of preventive therapies in patients with migraine-like headache and intracranial neoplasms are not available, single reports showed possible efficacy of triptans in one case of glioblastoma (28) and in two cases of pituitary macroadenoma (29,30).…”

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Update on headache and brain tumors

2020

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Headache is one of the leading symptoms often associated with brain tumours. Secondary headaches attributed to intracranial neoplasias have been included in subchapter 7.4 of the third edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3). According to ICHD-3, the headache may be attributed to a brain tumour if it has developed in close temporal relation with the development of the neoplasia, has significantly worsened in parallel with the worsening of the tumour, and/or has significantly improved following the successful treatment of the neoplasia. Brain tumour headache was traditionally thought to display some specific clinical characteristics, including worsening in the morning and/or when lying down, being aggravated by Valsalva-like manoeuvres and accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting; however, the studies performed after the advent of modern neurodiagnostic techniques have pointed out that the “classic” brain tumour headache is uncommon, particularly at the time of clinical presentation. Therefore, it becomes critical to seek some specific factors associated with the presence of an intracranial mass (the so-called “red flags”) that can guide the physician to establish an accurate diagnosis.

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Headache and brain tumors

Cited by 17 publications

References 62 publications

Mechanism of Brain Tumor Headache

Mechanism of Brain Tumor Headache

The Clinical Characteristics of Secondary Headache

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