A cluster-tic syndrome: a case report 2 ARC Publishing Introduction Cluster headache is characterized by unilateral, recurrent, short-lived severe pain in the orbito-temporal area along with ipsilateral autonomic symptoms (lacrimation, rhinorrhea). Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by recurrent, unilateral attacks of sharp, stabbing pain in the sensory innervation of one or more trigeminal ...

pituitrin was given hypodermically. Within three minutes of the injection the patient began to cry out with intense and sudden pain of a stabbing character in the right side of the chest and back. She sat up in bed, complained of orthopnoea, became pale in the face and seemed terrified. The pulse, which had been of normal tension and 63 to the minute, now became irregular and reduced to 40 to t...

A 35-year-old woman presented with 10 years of stabbing pain in her neck and upper back above her right scapula, sometimes radiating into both arms. Examination results were normal. Somatosensory evoked potentials showed significantly prolonged latency of the right C4 nerve root. Cervical spine MRI demonstrated tortuous vertebral arteries looping most notably into the C3-C4 neural foramina bila...

“...he was thrusting his sword in all directions, speaking out loud as if he were actually fighting a giant. And the strange thing was that he did not have his eyes open, because he was asleep and dreaming that he was battling the giant... He had stabbed the wine skins so many times, believing that he was stabbing the giant, that the entire room was filled with wine...” —Miguel de Cervantes, Do...

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Ischemic colitis (ischemic disease of the colon) was first described in 1966. It occurs when there is an occlusion of branches of the superior mesenteric (SMA) or inferior mesenteric arteries; the vast majority of cases describe the lesion in the splenic flexure and left colon. This severe illness is very common among the elderly with pronounced cardiovascular disorders. The onset is followed b...