The Exacerbation of Hemicrania Continua Mimics Trigeminal Neuralgia

We report the case of a 46-year-old man with hemicrania continua presenting as exacerbations mimicking trigeminal neuralgia. The patient was tentatively diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, and treatment with various combinations of drugs was performed after the onset of pain. However, when the cond...

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Autores principales: Kato, Yuji, Tamai, Yumeka, Hayashi, Takeshi, Mizuno, Satoko, Tanahashi, Norio, Takao, Masaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6443551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30333409
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1561-18
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author Kato, Yuji
Tamai, Yumeka
Hayashi, Takeshi
Mizuno, Satoko
Tanahashi, Norio
Takao, Masaki
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description We report the case of a 46-year-old man with hemicrania continua presenting as exacerbations mimicking trigeminal neuralgia. The patient was tentatively diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, and treatment with various combinations of drugs was performed after the onset of pain. However, when the condition of the patient did not improve, we suspected hemicrania continua, and treatment with indomethacin was initiated. There was a marked alleviation of his pain within 24 hours. Thus, clinicians should be aware that the duration and frequency of exacerbations of hemicrania continua are variable.
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spelling pubmed-64435512019-04-02 The Exacerbation of Hemicrania Continua Mimics Trigeminal Neuralgia Kato, Yuji Tamai, Yumeka Hayashi, Takeshi Mizuno, Satoko Tanahashi, Norio Takao, Masaki Intern Med Case Report We report the case of a 46-year-old man with hemicrania continua presenting as exacerbations mimicking trigeminal neuralgia. The patient was tentatively diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, and treatment with various combinations of drugs was performed after the onset of pain. However, when the condition of the patient did not improve, we suspected hemicrania continua, and treatment with indomethacin was initiated. There was a marked alleviation of his pain within 24 hours. Thus, clinicians should be aware that the duration and frequency of exacerbations of hemicrania continua are variable. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018-10-17 2019-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6443551/ /pubmed/30333409 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1561-18 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Kato, Yuji
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Tanahashi, Norio
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title_full The Exacerbation of Hemicrania Continua Mimics Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_fullStr The Exacerbation of Hemicrania Continua Mimics Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_full_unstemmed The Exacerbation of Hemicrania Continua Mimics Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_short The Exacerbation of Hemicrania Continua Mimics Trigeminal Neuralgia
title_sort exacerbation of hemicrania continua mimics trigeminal neuralgia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6443551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30333409
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.1561-18
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