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- Title
Posterior Fossa Meningioma Presenting as Hypnic Headache.
- Authors
Peatfield, R. C.; Mendoza, N. D.
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a patient presented with hypnic headache, but suffering from posterior fossa meningioma. The patient reported a nine-month history of episodic nocturnal headache. She also reported some brief episodes of giddiness triggered by lifting her head or turning over in bed, without vertigo per se. A brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan demonstrated a lesion in the left posterior fossa displacing the cerebellum and brain stem with slight widening of the lateral and third ventricles. The lesion enhanced homogeneously with gadolinium contrast. Although this patient's headaches seemed typical of hypnic headache, the MRI was justified largely because of her atypical giddiness. Following the surgery, the hypnic headaches promptly ceased and did not recur.
- Publication
Headache: The Journal of Head & Face Pain, 2003, Vol 43, Issue 9, p1007
- ISSN
0017-8748
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1046/j.1526-4610.2003.03195.x