Types, Diagnosis and What Else It Might Be

Source: Chapter 2 in full. Section numbering and the part’s own reference list retained from the source chapter.

With the nature, mechanism and distribution established, this part places CH inside the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia family, works through the differentials and the diagnostic journey, and lays out what triggers and comorbidities the evidence actually supports.

This chapter maps cluster headache (CH) inside the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia (TAC) family, sets out the differential diagnoses most often confused with it, works through what a proper diagnostic workup looks like, and lays out what triggers and comorbidities the evidence base — formal and informal, English and non-English — actually supports.