This headache type has had many different names in the past including ciliary neuralgia, erythroprosopalgia of Bing, hemicrania periodic neuralgiforms, histaminic cephalalgia, Horton’s headache, migrainous neuralgia, Sluder’s neuralgia, and sphenopalatine neuralgia. Kunkle and colleagues observed the tendency of the headaches to cluster in time and proposed the term, “cluster headache,” in 1952.

Herpes zoster characterized by clustered vesicles and severe pain is caused by reactivation of varicella-zoster virus in the sensory ganglion in humans. In some herpes zoster patients, pain persists long after healing of the skin lesions, which is postherpetic neuralgia. Patients with postherpetic neuralgia report various types of pain. In addition, a large proportion describes "allodynia", whi...

Trigeminal neuralgia is one of the most common causes of facial pain. It implies short lasting episodes of unilateral electric shock-like pain with abrupt onset and termination, in the distribution of one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve that are triggered by innocuous stimuli. Most cases of trigeminal neuralgia are caused by compression of the trigeminal nerve root. Depending on the e...

Post-herpetic neuralgia is the most challenging and debilitating complication of herpes zoster in the immunocompetent host. Because the effect of treatment is disappointing once the syndrome has developed, it is important to know which factors predict post-herpetic neuralgia occurrence to facilitate selection of herpes zoster patients with a higher risk of developing neuralgia and undertake pre...

Eighteen patients who subsequently developed typical trigeminal neuralgia experienced a prodromal pain termed "pre-trigeminal neuralgia." These patients described their prodromal pain as a toothache or sinusitis-like pain lasting up to several hours, sometimes triggered by jaw movements or by drinking hot or cold liquids. Typical trigeminal neuralgia developed a few days to 12 years later, and ...

BACKGROUND Though the classical type of trigeminal neuralgia is the most common type with the neurovascular conflict causing the symptoms, yet quite some patients have the secondary type of trigeminal neuralgia in which space occupying lesions are responsible for the symptoms. This study was conducted to determine the frequency of cerebellopontine angle tumours in patients presenting with compl...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a disorder of the fifth cranial nerve. We report an unusual case of trigeminal neuralgia affecting right side of face presenting atypical features of neuralgia and not responding to the usual course of treatment. A large extra-axial mass involving right cerebellopontine angle .The aim of this case report is to show a tumor of cerebellopontine angle, presenting clinically...

Although patients with Bell palsy and trigeminal neuralgia occasionally present to primary care physicians, most of the syndromes in this article are somewhat rare in primary care practice. It is important to recognize signs and symptoms of these syndromes so that appropriate management is carried out. Patients may experience sensory and/or motor symptoms of the head and neck due to disorders o...

occipital neuralgia is a condition manifested by chronic occipital headaches and is thought to be caused by irritation or trauma to the greater occipital nerve (gon). treatment for occipital neuralgia includes medications, nerve blocks, and pulsed radiofrequency ablation (prfa). landmark-guided gon blocks are the mainstay in both the diagnosis and treatment of occipital neuralgia. ultrasound is...