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chronic daily headache
Etiology:
1) analgesic rebound headache (transformed headache)
2) chronic migraine
3) chronic tension headache
4) new daily persistent headache
5) hemicrania continua
6) cluster headache
7) hypnic headache
8) paroxysmal hemicrania
9) SUNCT syndrome
Radiology:
- MRI neuroimaging significantly reduces costs for patients with high levels of psychiatric morbidity [2]
Management:
- prophylactic therapy
Specific
analgesic rebound headache (transformed headache)
hemicrania continua
hypnic headache
new daily persistent headache
General
headache
chronic pain
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 15, 18.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2009, 2018.
- Howard L, Wessely S, Leese M et sl
Are investigations anxiolytic or anxiogenic? A randomised
controlled trial of neuroimaging to provide reassurance in
chronic daily headache.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005 Nov;76(11):1558-64.
PMID: 16227551 Free PMC Article