[Clinical characteristics of cluster headache]

The authors describe in detail the clinical characteristics of 48 patients suffering from cluster headache. They investigate the question of nomenclature and survey the clinical forms of diagnosis. They deal with differential diagnosis comparing migraine, trigeminal neuralgia and headaches origin from systemic illness. They point out that the clinical characteristics of their patients co-responding to the data in the literature. They emphasize that the precise anamnesis can result the diagnosis of this type of headache which is the basis of the treatment.