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Two more secondary headaches mimicking chronic paroxysmal hemicrania. Is this the exception or the rule?
S Gatzonis1, D D Mitsikostas, A Ilias
1Department of Neurology, Medical School of Athens (Greece) University, Eginition Hospital, Greece.
Headache
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
Two patients with headaches meeting the criteria of chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, as defined by the International Headache Society classification, are presented. Further investigations revealed a parasellar pituitary microadenoma in the first patient and a maxillary cyst in the second. Surgical removal of the lesions resulted in complete relief from headaches. The clinical features of this rare syndrome are discussed and suggest that a more detailed laboratory study and clinical follow-up is necessary in patients with chronic paroxysmal hemicrania.