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in Cluster Headache

Karl Ekbom, MD

Arch Neurol. 1968;19(5):487-493.

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IT IS RELATIVELY seldom that the physician has an opportunity to witness an attack of cluster headache (Horton's syndrome). Consequently, the diagnosis generally is based on anamnestic data supplied by the patient. A definite method for provoking an attack would therefore be of value, from both the diagnostic-therapeutic and the pathophysiological aspects, to establish the mechanism of the actual headache. Horton^1-3 showed that subcutaneous injection of histamine can elicit an attack, and reported positive results in 69% of his cases. The corresponding incidence in Peters' series was 75%.⁴ Several authors have, however, doubted the value of the histamine test. Thus, Gardner et al⁵ found that a typical attack could be precipitated only in the occasional case, and Friedman and Mikropoulos⁶ were not convinced of the specificity or value of the test.

Although nitroglycerin has been mentioned as a provocative agent in connection with Horton's syndrome, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Stockholm

From the Department of Neurology, Karolinska Sjukhuset, Stockholm.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 12, 1968.

Reprint requests to Neurologiska Kliniken, Karolinska Sjukhuset, Stockholm, S 104 01 (Dr. Ekbom).

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