An Ominous Cause of Headache in a Teenager

We present the case of an adolescent male who presented to the emergency department with headache and vomiting. We discuss the differential diagnosis and the need to maintain a high index of suspicion to avoid missing ominous causes of headache. In this case, the patient had a pineoblastoma, detecte...

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Autores principales: Shah, Dipal, Sklar, Rachel, Ganti, Latha, Walker, Joshua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8412887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513504
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16934
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description We present the case of an adolescent male who presented to the emergency department with headache and vomiting. We discuss the differential diagnosis and the need to maintain a high index of suspicion to avoid missing ominous causes of headache. In this case, the patient had a pineoblastoma, detected on a noncontrast CT scan. The CT scan was done as part of the emergency department workup to evaluate headache accompanied by vomiting in this otherwise healthy teenager.
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spelling pubmed-84128872021-09-09 An Ominous Cause of Headache in a Teenager Shah, Dipal Sklar, Rachel Ganti, Latha Walker, Joshua Cureus Emergency Medicine We present the case of an adolescent male who presented to the emergency department with headache and vomiting. We discuss the differential diagnosis and the need to maintain a high index of suspicion to avoid missing ominous causes of headache. In this case, the patient had a pineoblastoma, detected on a noncontrast CT scan. The CT scan was done as part of the emergency department workup to evaluate headache accompanied by vomiting in this otherwise healthy teenager. Cureus 2021-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8412887/ /pubmed/34513504 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16934 Text en Copyright © 2021, Shah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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