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Marta Allena1, Christina Tassorelli, Grazia Sances
1University Centre for the Study of Adaptive Disorders and Headache, University of Pavia and Headache Centre, IRCCS C Mondino Institute of Neurology Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
Abstract:
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.
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