scholarly journals SUNCT Syndrome

2020 ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan A. Pareja ◽  
Ottar Sjaastad
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2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
JA Pareja ◽  
AB Caminero ◽  
O Sjaastad

2006 ◽  
Vol 64 (2b) ◽  
pp. 507-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro A.S. Rocha Filho ◽  
Antonio Cezar R. Galvão ◽  
Manoel J. Teixeira ◽  
Getulio D. Rabello ◽  
Ida Fortini ◽  
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For twelve years, the subject of this report, a 38-year-old man, presented a clinical condition compatible with the SUNCT (short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing) syndrome. He presented a stabbing and intense daily pain located in the left pre-auricular and temporal regions. Each of these intense pain attacks lasted around one minute and presented a frequency of two to eight times per day. The pain was associated with ipsilateral lacrimation, conjunctival injection and rhinorrhea. MRI revealed a pituitary tumor with little suprasellar extent. The subject’s serial assays of prolactin, GH, TSH and ACTH were within normal levels. Following transsphenoidal hypophysectomy, with complete removal of the tumor, the subject no more presented pain. The pathological diagnosis was non-secreting adenoma. Fourteen months after the surgery, he remains symptom-free.


2008 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Adamo ◽  
Doniel Drazin ◽  
A. John Popp

Short-lasting, unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) syndrome was first described in 1978 as one of the trigeminal autonomic cephalgias. In this paper the authors present a patient with a growth hormone–secreting pituitary adenoma who experienced resolution of SUNCT syndrome after transsphenoidal tumor resection.


Headache ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 95-99
Author(s):  
Todd J. Schwedt ◽  
Jonathan P. Gladstone ◽  
R. Allan Purdy ◽  
David W. Dodick
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Cephalalgia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 929-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Lisotto ◽  
F Mainardi ◽  
F Maggioni ◽  
G Zanchin

The trigeminal autonomic cephalgias (TACs) are characterized by short-lasting unilateral headaches with autonomic features (1). They include four headache disorders, cluster headache (CH), paroxysmal hemicrania (PH), SUNCT syndrome and hemicrania continua (HC). The coexistence of different ipsilateral TACs in the same patient has been previously reported in six published cases (2-6). In five of these patients an association of CH and PH was noted (2-5). The two varieties of attacks occurred separately in three patients, while their simultaneous occurrence was observed in two cases. In another patient the successive occurrence of trigeminal neuralgia, SUNCT syndrome, PH and CH in one active headache period was noted (6). All the reported cases concerned male patients. We describe what we believe to be the first case of coexistence of two different contralateral TACs.


2007 ◽  
Vol 65 (3b) ◽  
pp. 852-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Gustavo Riccioppo Rodrigues ◽  
Carlos Alberto Bordini ◽  
Fabíola Dach ◽  
Alan Eckeli ◽  
José Geraldo Speciali

SUNCT is one of the rarest and least known primary headache disorders. Although its pathogenesis has been partially understood by functional neuroimaging and reports of secondary cases, there is limited understanding of its cause. We report a case of SUNCT in a 54-years-old man, that could not be strictly classified as secondary SUNCT; however, the time lag of pain onset suggests a new theory in which neuroplasticity could be involved in the origin and duration of the pain in SUNCT syndrome.


2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. E1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun D. Rodgers ◽  
Bryan J. Marascalchi ◽  
Russell G. Strom ◽  
Paul P. Huang

Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) syndrome is classified under trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. This rare headache syndrome is infrequently associated with secondary pathologies. In this paper the authors report on a patient with paroxysmal left retroorbital pain with associated autonomic symptoms of ipsilateral conjunctival injection and lacrimation, suggestive of SUNCT syndrome. After failed medical treatment an MRI sequence was obtained in this patient, demonstrating an epidermoid tumor in the left cerebellopontine angle. The patient's symptoms completely resolved after a gross-total resection of the tumor. This case demonstrates the effectiveness of resection as definitive treatment for SUNCT syndrome associated with tumoral compression of the trigeminal nerve. Early MRI studies should be considered in all patients with SUNCT, especially those with atypical signs and symptoms.


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