A3.6Undifferentiated trigeminal autonomic cephalalgiaHartmut Gobel2018-01-31T15:58:47+00:00
Description:
A trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia-like disorder occurring in children and adolescents with characteristics of the disorder not fully developed.
Comments:
Incomplete brain development may alter the presentation of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs). Patients coded A3.6 Undifferentiated trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia would, typically, be children or adolescents whose headaches have characteristics strongly suggestive of a TAC, but mixed and incomplete; for example, they may have lateralized headache attacks lasting 30 minutes with autonomic features, but without the expected responses to indomethacin, oxygen or triptans.
Longitudinal studies are required to understand these presentations better and in order to propose criteria for their diagnosis.