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Therapy-resistant cluster headache in childhood: case report and literature review
Article first published online: 11 MAY 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2009.01883.x
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Antonaci, F., Alfei, E., Piazza, F., De Cillis, I. and Balottin, U. (2009), Therapy-resistant cluster headache in childhood: case report and literature review. Cephalalgia. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2009.01883.x
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- Issue published online: 11 MAY 2009
- Article first published online: 11 MAY 2009
- Received 4 July 2008, accepted 15 February 2009
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Keywords:
- Cluster headache;
- childhood;
- drug resistance
The mean age of onset of cluster headache (CH) is in the late third decade. Only few cases of childhood-onset (< 14 years) CH have been reported in the literature. We report the case of an 11-year-old boy who suffered from sudden attacks of shock-like, intense pain, localized in the right orbital region, with associated photophobia, phonophobia, conjunctival injection, lacrimation, nasal congestion, rhinorrhoea and psychomotor agitation. The episodes lasted 60–180 min, and the headache frequency was one to three per day. Physical and neurological examinations, magnetic resonance imaging and blood examinations were normal. The first bout lasted 8 months. Attacks were resistant to every symptomatic and partially to prophylactic treatment that has been tried. The second bout lasted approximately 2 months.