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Unilateral nasal pain with migraine features.

AbstractBACKGROUND:
Migraine attacks exclusively felt in the face are very rare, the pain involving the territories supplied by the second and third branches of the trigeminal nerve.
CASES:
Two patients suffering from heminasal pain attacks accompanied with typical migrainous features and responsive to oral or intranasal triptans - but not to intranasal lidocaine or oxymetazoline. In one patient, the attacks could be precipitated upon slight touching on the tip of the nose, in the other attacks were preceded by the nasal sensation typically heralding sneezing.
DISCUSSION:
Migraine pain mostly develops within the innervation territory of the first branch of the trigeminal nerve, which includes the nose. Therefore, episodes of unilateral nasal pain with migrainous features could be considered a migraine with unusual topography (nasal migraine). Painful nasal attacks occasionally preceded by stimulation of trigeminal afferents in the nose, could be conceived of as migraine-tic syndrome.
AuthorsMónica Alvarez, Teresa Montojo, Beatriz de la Casa, Lydia Vela, Juan A Pareja
JournalCephalalgia : an international journal of headache (Cephalalgia) Vol. 33 Issue 12 Pg. 1055-8 (Sep 2013) ISSN: 1468-2982 [Electronic] England
PMID23575821 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Analgesics
  • Tryptamines
Topics
  • Administration, Intranasal
  • Aged
  • Analgesics (administration & dosage)
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality (physiology)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Migraine Disorders (complications, drug therapy)
  • Nose
  • Pain (drug therapy, etiology)
  • Tryptamines (administration & dosage)

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