What is your strategy for treating headaches in patients with history of brain tumor?
Specifically, headaches thought not to be related to increased ICP.
Answer from: at Community Practice
I assume that the question is the treatment of headaches in patients with brain tumors who do not have increased intracranial pressure. I can think of two examples here, which are low-grade glioma and meningioma. In my experience, neither is a cause of intense headaches; if the patient does have suc...
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Radiation Oncologist at Stroger Hospital Great question.
Not all headaches in patients with brain tumors arise in the context of elevated ICP, but there are other mechanisms (dural irritation, traction on blood vessels, post-craniotomy pain, for example) by which they can be related. If the headache otherwise seems migrainous, I would treat it as migraine...
Great question.