Nummular headache secondary to an intracranial mass lesion.
Nummular headache is a coin-shaped, chronic cephalalgia usually considered to stem from epicranial tissues. We describe a patient complaining of circumscribed pain in the head as the only symptom of a subtentorial meningioma. This observation underlines the need to revise the concept of circumscribed, referred pains in the head arising from pain-sensitive intracranial structures.
Department of Neurology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain. amparo.guillem@telefonica.net
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Barriga
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Giménez-Roldán
D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures