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Cluster Headache Following Head Injury: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Author(s) -
Turkewitz L. Jay,
Wirth Oliver,
Dawson Gregory A.,
Casaly Joseph S.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1992.hed3210504.x
Subject(s) - cluster headache , cluster (spacecraft) , head injury , head trauma , head (geology) , medicine , surgery , psychiatry , migraine , computer science , biology , paleontology , programming language
SYNOPSIS A relation between head trauma and cluster headache is frequently described in the literature. The percentage of cluster patients with a history of head injury is approximately 16.5 when several large studies are reviewed. The present paper reports another case where there is close proximity between head injury and the onset of cluster headache. A review of the literature attempts to document the supposition that there is indeed a causal or precipitous role for head injury in cluster cephalgia pathogenesis.