Finial Diagnoses: A Case Study

Define Differential Diagnoses:
The patient, a white male, has been experiencing headaches for ten days, on a pain scale (1 low pain & 10 being high amount of pain) the patient says that he feels that the headache is a 9. Other symptoms include headache, confusion, blurred vision, tinnitus, tiredness, nausea, dizziness, irritability, and tenderness over the right upper side of the head. After checking him out and talking with him about his past (medically) we found out that he has had three mild concussions from High School and College football. He was then taken in for a CT scan which found a crescentic (crescent moon- shaped) presence. Due to this information given I think that this could be a migraine, concussion, second impact syndrome, or a brain tumor.
Finial Diagnoses:
I believe this because the in the article entitled Concussions by the Mayo Clinic it states that some of the symptoms are headache, amnesia surrounding the event, nausea, memory impairment, vision issues, and bumps on head (Staff, 2014). This type of head injury is mostly experienced by athletes (Staff, 2014) who have a great impact with their head such as football players. Due to the fact that he has had concussions before due to a sport I think that this maybe the most reasonable answer. I also believe that the CT scan may have shown sometime of bleeding or swelling from where the fall has affected the