Case report: Epicranial pain after radiotherapy for skull base meningioma - the first symptomatic epicrania fugax?

Case report: Epicranial pain after radiotherapy for skull base meningioma - the first symptomatic epicrania fugax?

Cephalalgia. 2016 Apr 1;

Authors: Fernández-Matarrubia M, Gutiérrez-Viedma Á, Cuadrado ML

Abstract
BACKGROUND: To date, no symptomatic forms of epicrania fugax (EF) have been reported. Here, we describe the first EF-type pain to be probably caused by an underlying disorder.
CASE REPORT: A 77-year-old woman started suffering from left V1-V2 trigeminal neuralgia at 72 years of age. Neurologic examination was normal. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a left middle sphenoid wing meningioma compressing the left trigeminal nerve medially. After trying several neuromodulators, she received stereotactic radiotherapy. One month later, the episodes of facial pain were significantly diminished, but she started feeling brief electric paroxysms across her left hemicranium that were clinically identical to those of backwards EF. Serial MRI showed persistence of the meningioma without changes.
CONCLUSION: Although the pathogenesis of EF remains uncertain, this case is consistent with a symptomatic origin in the trigeminal root/pathway. The onset of the EF-like pain could have been caused by the compressive effect of the tumour or, most likely, by the radiation.

PMID: 27036640 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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