Tumors account for a tiny percentage of the headaches seen in office practice.
Without clear recommendations for scanning patients with apparent chronic tension-type headaches or cluster headaches, I get an enhanced ct scan on the former and an mri on the latter. Headaches were present in almost half of the patients with each of these tumor types. Its location was usually bifrontal. Posterior head pain occurred mostly with posterior-fossa tumors. Such symptoms are, of course, most atypical for tension-type headache.