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Variants of Cluster Headache

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Cluster headache is a condition characterized by periods of frequent headaches alternating with headache-free periods. However, five to ten percent who experience attacks which are so typical of cluster (excruciating unilateral boring or burning pain located around the orbit or temple associated with unilateral autonomic symptoms) have extremely infrequent or possibly no periods of remission. These patients suffer from a variant of cluster known most commonly as “chronic cluster headache,” or referred to as “chronic migrainous neuralgia” by authors who consider the first name a contradiction in terms.1 Some of the patients with this syndrome have a history of more typically clustered headaches before the onset of the chronic pattern, and their disorder is termed secondary chronic cluster headache; those with no previous classical history are said to have the primary form.

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  1. Houston Headache Clinic and Department of Neurology, University of Texas, Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA

    Ninan T. Mathew M.D. (Director) (Director)

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Diamond, S. (1984). Variants of Cluster Headache. In: Mathew, N.T. (eds) Cluster Headache. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7822-8_3

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