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Title: Cluster Headaches

Category: Neurology

Keywords: Cluster, headaches (PubMed Search)

Posted: 8/4/2010 by Aisha Liferidge, MD (Updated: 12/26/2024)
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Cluster headaches are defined as a group of at least five headache attacks causing unilateral orbital, supraorbital and/or temporal pain, with at least one of the following simultaneous associated findings on the affected side:

  1. conjunctival injection
  2. lacrimation
  3. nasal congestion
  4. rhinorrhea
  5. ptosis
  6. miosis
  7. sweating on the forehead

Cluster headaches can occur at a frequency of one every other day t  eight episodes per day.

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