The Headache Course
Overview
This is a chapter from the First Headache Course
Cluster Headache
3.1 Cluster headache
Previously used terms:
Ciliary neuralgia; erythromelalgia of the head; erythroprosopalgia of Bing; hemicrania angioparalytica; hemicrania neuralgiformis chronica; histaminic cephalalgia; Horton’s headache; Harris-Horton’s disease; migrainous neuralgia (of Harris); petrosal neuralgia (of Gardner); Sluder’s neuralgia; sphenopalatine neuralgia; vidian neuralgia.
Coded elsewhere:
Symptomatic cluster headache, secondary to another disorder, is coded as a secondary headache attributed to that disorder.
Description:
Attacks of severe, strictly unilateral pain which is orbital, supraorbital, temporal or in any combination of these sites, lasting 15-180 minutes and occurring from once every other day to eight times a day. The pain is associated with ipsilateral conjunctival injection, lacrimation, nasal congestion, rhinorrhoea, forehead and facial sweating, miosis, ptosis and/or eyelid oedema, and/or with restlessness or agitation.