title: Trigeminal autonomic cephalgias and variants: clinical profile in Indian patients.
abstract: The present study summarizes the authors' experience of the clinical profile of short-lasting trigeminal autonomic cephalgias (TAC) in Indian patients. Over a period of 17 years a total of 41 cases of episodic cluster headache, seven cases of chronic cluster headache, six cases of variant cluster headache, three cases of paroxysomal hemicrania, and a single case of SUNCT syndrome were encountered. TACs appear to be rare in Indian patients and cluster headache seems to be exclusively a disease of men. The present report is to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind to be reported from India.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Kolkata, India. saschakra@yahoo.com
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chakravarty
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authors.lastname: Mukherjee
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authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003027:Cluster Headache / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000473:pathology*