"Short lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks can present with either conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) or with cranial autonomic symptoms (SUNA) are rare headache syndromes that belong to a larger group of headaches known as trigeminal autonomic cephalgia and can present very similarly to trigeminal neuralgia."
"Features of SUNCT and SUNA are similar to trigeminal neuralgia with vascular impingement fairly frequently encountered. This is an important finding as it can affect management decisions (e.g. surgical microvascular decompression 4) but required dedicated imaging with high-resolution sequences and MRA (see trigeminal neuralgia protocol)."
"Treatment is challenging and many treatments have been tried, none of which have uniformly high success rates 1. These include medical (e.g. carbamazepine, gabapentin etc...), percutaneous (e.g. greater occipital nerve block) and surgical (e.g. trigeminal microvascular decompression) 1,2."
"Treatment is challenging and many treatments have been tried, none of which have uniformly high success rates 1. These include medical (e.g. carbamazepine, gabapentin etc...), percutaneous (e.g. greater occipital nerve block) and surgical (e.g. trigeminal microvascular decompression) 1,2."
"Features of SUNCT and SUNA are similar to trigeminal neuralgia with vascular impingement fairly frequently encountered. This is an important finding as it can affect management decisions (e.g. surgical microvascular decompression 4) but required dedicated imaging with high-resolution sequences and MRA (see trigeminal neuralgia protocol)."