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Linear headache: clinical characteristics of eight new cases

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Title
Linear headache: clinical characteristics of eight new cases
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SpringerPlus, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40064-016-1991-1
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Ya-Nan Lu, Qing-Qing Pan, Jie-Feng Pan, Lei Wang, Yun-Yun Lu, Liang-Hui Hu, Yu Wang

Abstract

Linear headache (LH) has recently been described as a paroxysmal or continuous fixed head pain restricted in a linear trajectory of 5-10 mm in width, linking one endpoint in occipital or occipitocervical region with another endpoint in ipsilateral nasion or forehead region. For some patients, this headache had some features resembling migraine without aura. We made a prospective search of patients presenting with a clinical picture comprised under the heading of LH and we have accessed eight new cases. A detailed clinical feature of the headache was obtained in all cases to differentiate with cranial neuralgia, paroxysmal hemicrania, cervicogenic headache, nummular headache and migraine. The eight LH patients complained of a recurrent moderate to severe, distending, pulsating, or pressure-like pain within a strictly unilateral line-shaped area. The headache duration would be ranged from 1 h to 2 days or persistent for 1-6 months with recurrent worsening of headaches. For some patients, this headache had couple of features similar to that of migraine pattern, such as accompaniments of nausea, vomiting, and phonophobia, diziness, triggering factors of noise, bright night, resting after physical activity, fatigue, menstruation, and response to anti-migraine therapy. This description reinforces the proposal of LH as a new headache syndrome or a new variant of a previously known headache syndrome, probably of migraine.

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Unknown 14 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 2 14%
Student > Bachelor 2 14%
Student > Master 2 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 5 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 3 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 14%
Chemistry 2 14%
Neuroscience 1 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 36%
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#14,255,539
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#770
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#159,671
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#62
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