title: [Occipital neuralgia with visual obscurations: a case report].
abstract: Vertigo, dizziness and visual blurring have been reported in painful conditions in trigeminal innervation zones such as in idiopathic stabbing headache, supraorbital neuralgia or trigeminal nerve ophthalmic branch neuralgia. Although not common, pain in occipital neuralgia can spread through the anterior parts of the head. In this article, we present a case whose occipital neuralgiform paroxysms spread to the ipsilateral eye with simultaneous visual obscuration; the mechanisms of propagation and visual obscuration are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey. macitselekler@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Hamit Macit
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Selekler
authors.forename: Gülmine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dündar
authors.forename: Ayşe
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kutlu
mesh_terms: D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000150:complications; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000150:complications*; D014717:Vertigo / Q000209:etiology; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology*