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Headache & Facial Pain MCQs
Neurology · MBBS / Medicine · 26 practice questions
- Location of Pain
- Precipitating & Exacerbating Factors
- Precipitating Factors
- Characteristics of Pain
- Associated Symptoms
- Pathophysiology - Pain-Sensitive Structures
- Radiation or Projection of Pain
- Other Features of Headache
1. A patient presents with episodic severe headaches accompanied by tachycardia and profuse sweating. Which underlying condition should be specifically suspected based on this combination?
- ATension-type headache from anxiety
- BPheochromocytoma
- CCluster headache
- DGiant cell arteritis
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B. Pheochromocytoma Paroxysmal headache associated with tachycardia and perspiration is characteristic of pheochromocytoma.
2. A patient describes headaches that fluctuate unpredictably in intensity and duration, and her family notes that her mental status also seems to wax and wane along with the headaches. This constellation is most suggestive of which diagnosis?
- ASubdural hematoma
- BCluster headache
- CMigraine with aura
- DTension-type headache
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A. Subdural hematoma Fluctuations in intensity and duration of headache with no obvious cause, especially with similar fluctuations in mental status, are seen with subdural hematoma.
3. A patient reports that his headaches wake him from sleep at the same time nearly every night. This temporal pattern is most characteristic of which headache type?
- ASinusitis
- BCluster headache
- CMigraine
- DTension-type headache
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B. Cluster headache Cluster headaches frequently awaken patients from sleep and often recur at the same time each day or night.
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