An Ominous Cause of Headache in a Teenager

Dipal Shah; Rachel Sklar; Latha Ganti; Joshua Walker

An Ominous Cause of Headache in a Teenager

Dipal Shah
, Rachel Sklar
, Latha Ganti
, Joshua Walker

HCA Florida Ocala Hospital

HCA Healthcare

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Abstract

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.

Original language	American English
Journal	Emergency Medicine
State	Published - Aug 6 2021

Keywords

pineoblastoma
pinealoma
pediatric headache
cephalgia
emergency medicine
brain tumor

Disciplines

Emergency Medicine
Neoplasms
Nervous System Diseases

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https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16934

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