Linear headache

Evidence-based neurology checklist on linear headache: Headache location This is a headache that occurs in a strictly unilateral line-shaped area The line is 5-10mm wide The line starts from the occipital or occipito-cervical region It extends to the eye, forehead or parietal region Headache…

Headache location

  • This is a headache that occurs in a strictly unilateral line-shaped area
  • The line is 5-10mm wide
  • The line starts from the occipital or occipito-cervical region
  • It extends to the eye, forehead or parietal region

Headache character

Headache triggers

Associated migraine features

Differential diagnosis

Treatment

References

  1. Wang Y, Tian MM, Wang XH, et al. Linear headache: a recurrent unilateral head pain circumscribed in a line-shaped area. J Headache Pain 2014; 15:45. 
  2. Lu YN, Pan QQ, Pan JF, Wang L, Lu YY, Hu LH, Wang Y. Linear headache: clinical characteristics of eight new cases. Springerplus 2016; 5:347. 
  3. Chavarría-Miranda A, Guerrero ÁL, Talavera B, et al. Linear headache: a novel entity or a variant of nummular headache? Clinical characteristics and treatment response in a series of 16 patients. Pain Med 2021; 22:1158-1166. 
  4. Wang L, Pan JF, Lu YY, Hu LH, Lu YN, Pan QQ, Wang Y. A recurrent headache circumscribed in a coronal line-shaped area around the head: a coronal linear headache. Springerplus 2016; 5:315. 
  5. Pareja JA, Bandrés P. Linear interictal pain in Epicrania Fugax. J Headache Pain 2015; 16:507.

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