Cluster headache is diagnosed on the basis of history and physical examination.Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of history, physical examination, laboratory diagnostics, and obligatory medical device diagnostics – for differential diagnostic workup
- Computed tomography/magnetic resonance imaging of the skull (cranial CT or.cCT/cranial MRI or cMRI) with visualization of the craniocervical junction – for initial diagnosis, in the case of conspicuous neurological examination or in older patients (> 60. LJ) useful to exclude neurological clinical pictures such as destructive bone processes, brain tumors or vascular malformations.
- Magnetic resonance angiography (cMRA) – to exclude vascular malformations.
