Abstract: Up to now,the researches of postoperative headache have been focused on the pain of the incision of scalp,however,other kinds of headache have not been thought highly of.To find and determine the reasons of postoperative headache and treat depending on the pathogenesis of the pain are the main goal in the future.The authors investigated and reviewed the pathogenesis of cervicogenic headache after craniotomy and proposed the therapeutic strategy in this article.

Key words: craniotomy, headache, treatment, review