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 Academic Institution
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...
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.