Neurology · Neurology / Headache medicine
SUNCT syndrome
also: Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing
Brief unilateral stabbing attacks with prominent autonomic features.
- Specialty
- Neurology
- Subspecialty
- Neurology / Headache medicine
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected, more common; Female: affected; Children: rare
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing
Etiology & mechanism
Trigeminal-autonomic activation; posterior fossa lesions in some.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (4)
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