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Open Access
01.04.2010 | Letter to the Editor
Temporal response to bupivacaine bilateral great occipital block in a patient with SUNCT syndrome
verfasst von:
Jesús Porta-Etessam, Maria L. Cuadrado, Lucía Galán, Arturo Sampedro, Cristina Valencia
Erschienen in:
The Journal of Headache and Pain
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Ausgabe 2/2010
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Excerpt
Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) syndrome is an infrequent form of unilateral headache accompanied by cranial autonomic features [
1]. The pain is severe, and the titrations of some of the drugs have to be slow to prevent side effects [
2,
3]. We present a case of a patient with SUNCT syndrome who showed a temporal improvement of pain with bupivacaine greater occipital nerve (GON) block. …