Headaches

Question 1

Autonomic dysfunction is associated with what type of headache?

Answer 1

cluster headaches

Question 2

What procedure can be used to treat refractory cluster headaches?

Answer 2

sphenopalatine ganglion lesioning

Question 3

What is Tolosa-Hunt syndrome?

Answer 3

nonspecific inflammation of the cavernous sinus or superior orbital fissure

ocular and retro-orbital pain, ocular motor paralysis (pupil may be involved), and possibly sensory loss over the forehead (CNs III, IV, V1, and VI, sympathetics)

Question 4

Where is the area of compression/demyelination of the Trigeminal nerve in Trigeminal neuralgia?

Answer 4

Obersteiner-Redlich zone

Question 5

Steroids help prevent what complication of temporal arteritis?

Answer 5

Blindness

Question 6

What is Ramsay Hunt syndrome?

Answer 6

geniculate ganglion (CN VII) herpes infection with ear pain and vesicles (in the external auditory meatus), facial weakness, possible hearing deterioration, vertigo, and tinnitus