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Headaches Associated with Papilledema

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Headaches associated with papilledema may be both life-threatening as well as vision-threatening. This review will review the following clinical features: (1) the character of headaches associated with increased intracranial pressure; (2) the visual symptoms associated with papilledema; (3) the funduscopic findings of true papilledema versus pseudo-papilledema; (4) the role of ancillary ophthalmological testing such as visual fields and spectral domain optical coherence tomography; (5) the neuro-radiological evaluation of patients with headaches and papilledema; (6) the treatment of vision-threatening papilledema.

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Sergott, R.C. Headaches Associated with Papilledema. Curr Pain Headache Rep 16, 354–358 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-012-0283-x

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