Shortlasting, unilateral, neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT syndrome) and tumour of the cavernous sinus

Cephalalgia

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 395-397

  Kaphan, Elsa ^a   Eusebio, A ^a   Donnet, A ^a   Witjas, T ^a   Ali Cherif A ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; AZATHIOPRINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; CYCLOSPORIN A; DOXORUBICIN; GADOLINIUM; INDOMETACIN; LAMOTRIGINE; MORPHINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PARACETAMOL; PROPRANOLOL; STEROID; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; DISEASE COURSE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LACRIMATION; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOSE CONGESTION; PATHOGENESIS; SYNDROME SUNCT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; SYNDROME; TEARS;

EID: 0037495908     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.2003.00535.x     Document Type: Article

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