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01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
O065. Drug-resistant chronic cluster headache successfully treated with supraorbital plus occipital nerve stimulation. A rare case report
Authors:
Marco Mercieri, Andrea Negro, Barbara Silvestri, Lidia D'Alonzo, Sara Tigano, Roberto Arcioni, Paolo Martelletti
Published in:
The Journal of Headache and Pain
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Chronic cluster headache (CCH) is a rare and extremely disabling headache syndrome with a recent clinical systematization of its clinical frame from the European Headache Federation[
1]. We present a case of a young man affected by drug-resistant chronic CH (rCCH) who showed improvement after a two-time combined supraorbital and occipital nerve stimulation (S-ONS). The clinical improvement was still present at 6-month follow-up. …