[Facial vascular pain and sympathalgia. Therapeutic trial]

After a brief historical review of non-symptomatic pain, the authors describe the typical form of vascular pain in the face, a definite clinical entity. As is in the case in other specialties, they now prefer the term vascular pain to that of sympathalgia, still often used in our own discipline. Vascular pain occurs by paroxysmal attacks centred upon the orbit, accompanied by typical vasomotors signs. The treatment proposed is based upon the use alone or in association of dihydroergotamine, methysergide and beta-blockers.