Headaches in brain tumor patients: primary or secondary?

CONCLUSION: Our literature review revealed that brain tumor headache uncommonly presents with classic brain tumor headache characteristics and often satisfies criteria for a primary headache category such as migraine or tension-type. Thus, clinicians may miss headaches due to brain tumors in following ICHD-3 criteria, and the distinction between primary and secondary headache disorders may not be so clear-cut. PMID: 24697234 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24697234?dopt=Abstract

Source: Headache - April 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Nelson S, Taylor LP Tags: Headache Source Type: research