Rhinitis and Rhinologic Headaches
Rhinologic headache, a headache of nasal origin, generally has been attributed to past facial trauma causing nasal mucosa-septal contact points. Patients who have not knowingly experienced nasal trauma may have contact points caused by mucosal inflammation or anatomic abnormalities (septal spurs, septal deviation, and enlarged turbinates) and can develop rhinologic headaches. A population of 66 such patients was studied to classify the type of patient susceptible to such headaches and to examine the type of underlying inflammation or anatomic abnormality responsible for creating their mucosal contact points. Most patients were women with a mean age at the time of initial presentation of 40 years. VMR was the most frequent cause of nasal inflammation, either alone or in combination with allergic rhinitis. Generally, headache symptoms improved with treatment of the underlying nasal inflammation in the majority of patients.
Document Type: Original Article
Publication date: 01 March 2004
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