Vascular pain syndromes

a) migraine headaches: see Migraine

● simple migraine: includes classic migraine, common migraine

● complicated migraine: includes hemiplegic migraine, ophthalmoplegic migraine

b) clusterH/A;subtypes:episodic,chronic,chronic paroxysmal hemicrania

c) giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis). Tenderness over STA

d) toxic or metabolic vascular H/A (fever,hypercapnia,EtOH,nitrites,hypoxia,hypoglycemia, caffeine withdrawal)

e) hypertensive H/A

f) aneurysm or AVM (due either to mass effect or hemorrhage)

g) carotidynia:e.g.with carotid dissection

h) basilar dolichoectasia with fifth n.compression or indentation of the pons