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Symptomatic cluster headache: a review of 63 cases.
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- Secondary cluster headache and numb chin syndrome as initial manifestation of high-grade B-lymphoma: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2021Article
- Is pituitary MRI screening necessary in cluster headache?Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache · 2021Article
- A rare pediatric case of cluster headaches after cardiac catheterization in a patient with an isolated innominate artery.SAGE open medical case reports · 2021Article
- Headache in neurological emergency.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020Review
- [Headache emergencies are easily overlooked].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2020Review
- The Efficacy of Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block and Radiofrequency Denervation in the Treatment of Cluster Headache: A Case Series.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2020Article
- Pharmacotherapy for Cluster Headache.CNS drugs · 2020Review
- Headaches in Patients with Pituitary Tumors: a Clinical Conundrum.Current pain and headache reports · 2018Review
- Secondary (Symptomatic) Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgia.Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology · 2018Review
- Cluster-Like Headache Secondary to Sphenoid Sinus Mucocele.Case reports in neurological medicine · 2018Article
- Horner syndrome as a postoperative complication after minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy: A case report.Medicine · 2017Article
- Carotid dissection presenting as a prolonged cluster-like headache in a patient with episodic cluster headache.BMJ case reports · 2017Article
- Horner's Syndrome Incidental to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Excision: Case Report and Brief Literature Review.Case reports in otolaryngology · 2016Article
- Chronic cluster headache and the pituitary gland.The journal of headache and pain · 2016Article
- Resting state fMRI in cluster headache: which role?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2015Review
- Altered serum levels of kynurenine metabolites in patients affected by cluster headache.The journal of headache and pain · 2015Article
- Refractory chronic cluster headache: a consensus statement on clinical definition from the European Headache Federation.The journal of headache and pain · 2014Article
- Cluster headache as a first manifestation of multiple sclerosis: case report and literature review.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2014Review
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Abstract
Cluster headache is a primary headache by definition not caused by any known underlying structural pathology. Symptomatic cases have been described, for example tumours, dissections and infections, but a causal relationship between the underlying lesion and the headache is difficult to determine in many cases. The proper diagnostic evaluation of cluster headache is an issue unresolved. The literature has been reviewed for symptomatic cluster headache or cluster headache-like cases in which causality was likely. The review also attempted to identify clinical predictors of underlying lesions in order to formulate guidelines for neuroimaging. Sixty-three cluster headache or "cluster headache-like"/"cluster-like headache" cases in the literature were identified which were associated with an underlying lesion. A majority of the cases had a non-typical presentation that is atypical symptomatology and abnormal examination (including Horner's syndrome). A striking finding in this appraisal was that a significant proportion of CH cases were secondary to diseases of the pituitary gland or pituitary region. Another notable finding was that a proportion of cluster headache cases were associated with arterial dissection. Even typical cluster headaches can be caused by structural lesions and the response to typical cluster headache treatments does not exclude a secondary form. It is difficult to draw definitive conclusions from this retrospective review of case reports especially considering the size of the material. However, based on this review, I suggest that neuroimaging, preferably contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging/magnetic resonance angiography should be undertaken in patients with atypical symptomatology, late onset, abnormal examination (including Horner's syndrome), or those resistant to the appropriate medical treatment. The decision to perform magnetic resonance imaging in cases of typical cluster headache remains a matter of medical art.
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