Supraorbital neuralgia. On the clinical manifestations and a possible therapeutic approach.

The clinical manifestations of supraorbital neuralgia are apparently only incompletely known. The lack of awareness of this head pain may possibly be due to its rarity and problems with making the diagnosis. In the present work, the long-term result of minor, decompressive surgery of the supraorbital nerve in five patients is reported.

Headache and the lower cervical spine: long-term, postoperative follow-up after decompressive neck surgery.

A retrospective search for headache sufferers was conducted among patients operated on for cervicobrachialgia, and the operative results were evaluated. We also tried to classify the preoperative headache according to current headache classification systems. A total of 187 patients were operated on with Smith-Robinson's method, or by "simple" foraminectomy/ facetectomy.

Coexistence of cervicogenic headache and migraine without aura (?).

It is well known that migraine with aura may coexist with various unilateral headaches, like cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania. It may also coexist with cervicogenic headache. The diagnosis of migraine without aura ("common migraine") poses greater problems than the diagnosis of migraine with aura.

Cervicogenic headache: long-term postoperative follow-up.

The patient, a 50-year old female had been suffering from right-sided head- and neck pain since she was 31 years of age. It started in connection with an indirect neck trauma. Analgesics were of little or no avail and operative procedures, including liberation of the greater occipital nerve (GON) (n = 2) and decompression of the C2 ganglion/root, had only a transitory effect.