Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing caused by a pituitary adenoma.

Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) syndrome is a rare primary headache syndrome first described in 1978. We report on a 43-year-old man with a 10 year history of SUNCT in whom a pituitary macroadenoma was eventually detected. His pain rapidly improved with medical treatment of the prolactinoma and we propose that this is a case of symptomatic SUNCT. Crown Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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T D Musuka, R H Edis, A G Kermode. Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing caused by a pituitary adenoma. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. 2013 Aug;20(8):1180-1

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