Volume 27, Issue 2 pp. 173-176

Typical cluster headache caused by granulomatous pituitary involvement

I Favier

Corresponding Author

I Favier

Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands,

Department of Neurology, Rijnland Hospital, Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, and

I. Favier, Department of Neurology, K5-Q, Leiden University Medical Centre, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands. Tel. 0031 71 5262895, fax 0031 71 5248253; e-mail [email protected]Search for more papers by this author
J Haan

J Haan

Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands,

Department of Neurology, Rijnland Hospital, Leiderdorp, the Netherlands, and

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SG Van Duinen

SG Van Duinen

Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands

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MD Ferrari

MD Ferrari

Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands,

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First published: 26 January 2007
Citations: 2

Abstract

A young woman had typical cluster headache attacks and a pituitary mass lesion. The headache attacks resolved after transsphenoidal resection of the tumour, which was diagnosed as a granulomatous inflammation. The association between cluster headache and granulomatous enlargement of the pituitary gland has never been described before. This case reinforces the growing evidence that even in typical cases of cluster headache, neuroimaging is mandatory to exclude structural lesions.

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