TY - JOUR
T1 - Is hemicrania continua a single entity or the association of two headache forms? Considerations from a case report
AU - Allena, Marta
AU - Tassorelli, Christina
AU - Sances, Grazia
AU - Guaschino, Elena
AU - Sandrini, Giorgio
AU - Nappi, Giuseppe
AU - Antonaci, Fabios
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - Hemicrania continua (HC) belongs to the group of primary headaches and it is characterized by a strictly unilateral, continuous headache of moderate intensity, with superimposed exacerbations of severe intensity that are accompanied by trigeminal autonomic features. The syndrome is completely responsive to indomethacin. Here we report a case of a 49-year-old man with HC, which may be viewed as a combination of different types of headache, ie, chronic tension-type headache and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia. The analysis of this case raises interesting issues regarding the proper place of HC among the primary headache forms.
AB - Hemicrania continua (HC) belongs to the group of primary headaches and it is characterized by a strictly unilateral, continuous headache of moderate intensity, with superimposed exacerbations of severe intensity that are accompanied by trigeminal autonomic features. The syndrome is completely responsive to indomethacin. Here we report a case of a 49-year-old man with HC, which may be viewed as a combination of different types of headache, ie, chronic tension-type headache and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia. The analysis of this case raises interesting issues regarding the proper place of HC among the primary headache forms.
KW - Hemicrania continua
KW - Migraine
KW - Tension-type headache
KW - Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01288.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01288.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 19178576
AN - SCOPUS:77951832172
VL - 50
SP - 877
EP - 881
JO - Headache
JF - Headache
SN - 0017-8748
IS - 5
ER -