Level 3: Headache – Initial History: Expert Panel DDX

How does your differential compare with the experts?

What questions will comprise your remaining history and review of systems?

Experts’ DDX:

  1. Increased intracranial pressure due to mass effect
    1. Tumor – primary or metastatic
    2. Abscess
  2. Intracranial bleed
    1. Subdural
    2. Subarachnoid
    3. Arteriovenous malformation and bleed
  3. Trauma
  4. Meningitis
  5. Encephalitis
  6. Hypoxia
  7. Hypercapnia
  8. Hyperglycemia
  9. Temporal arteritis
  10. Arterial hypertension
  11. Venous thrombosis
  12. Pseudotumor cerebri
  13. Benign intracranial hypertension
  14. Sinusitis
  15. Cancer in hypothalamus