Icepick‐like pain
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 30 (2) , 203
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.30.2.203
Abstract
The incidence and clinical characteristics of sharp, jabbing pain about the head were studied in 100 migraineurs and 100 control subjects. Among the controls, 3% had experienced paroxysmal sharp cranial pain, whereas 4% of the migraineurs had made this observation (p ≤ 0.001) and half of them experienced it more often than monthly. The pain was usually (45%) unifocal at the temple or orbit, was described as icepick-like by 52% of the patients, and was often (6%) experienced concurrently with headache. Icepick-like pain appears to be a manifestation of migraine and should be distinguished from trigeminal neuralgia.Keywords
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