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Headache Resembling Hemicrania Continua Caused by Pituitary Adenoma

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This is the complex history of a patient with pre-existing migraine with aura who developed first daily headaches resembling tension-type headache and later a continuous, strictly unilateral side-locked headache with exacerbations and ipsilateral cranial autonomic symptoms. This headache resembling hemicrania continua lead to the detection of a pituitary macroadenoma. Successful treatment of the tumor has paralleled with the resolution of the hemicrania continua like headache, thus suggesting a causal relation.

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  1. Headache Unit, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, Vienna, 1090, Austria

    Christian Wöber MD

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  1. Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Aksel Siva

  2. Headache Medical Center Seilerstaette Linz, Hospital Sisters of Charity, Linz, Austria

    Christian Lampl

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Wöber, C. (2015). Headache Resembling Hemicrania Continua Caused by Pituitary Adenoma. In: Siva, A., Lampl, C. (eds) Case-Based Diagnosis and Management of Headache Disorders. Headache. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06886-2_24

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