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Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania
Author(s) -
Kilpatrick Christine J.,
King John
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1982.tb132167.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cluster headache , dermatology , chronic pain , anesthesia , migraine , physical therapy
Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania is a recently described form of recurrent severe facial pain which resembles cluster headache or Migrainous neuralgia. Recognition of this entity is important because of the specific response to indomethacin. We report two cases of chronic paroxysmal hemicrania.