Abstract:Objective: To explore the relationship between headache attack and occipital lobe infarction,the pathogenesy of headache in cerebral infarction,the relationship between headache of cerebral infarction and migraine,and the role of occipital lobe in headache and migraine.Methods: A retrospective study was made on the incidence rate and characteristics of headache in 125 occipital infarction cases and 152 non-occipital lobe infarction cases.Results: Headache incidence rate was 19.49% in 227 cerebral infarction cases.Headache incidence rate(26.4%) in occipital lobe infarction cases was higher than that in non-occipital lobe infarction(P<0.01).Headache incidence rate in vertebra-basilar artery system infarction was significantly higher than that in carotid artery system infarction(P<0.01),especially in occipital lobe and brainstem.Conclusion: Cerebral infarction has close association with migraine.Migraine is an independent risk factor of subclinical post-circulate infarction.Occipital lobe probably plays a role in cerebral infarction headache similar to migraine.