Because headache can be a symptom of temporal arteritis, patients often think it's Migraine or another headache disorder. Temporal arteritis is sometimes called cranial arteritis or giant cell arteritis.

Temporal arteritis occurs when one or more arteries become inflamed and are damaged. It occurs most commonly in the head, especially in the temporal arteries that branch off the cartoid artery in the neck. The cause is unknown, but researchers think the inflammation is due to a faulty ...