• Yu Wang, Xian-Hong Wang, Miao-Miao Tian, Cheng-Juan Xie, Ying Liu, Qing-Qing Pan, and Ya-Nan Lu.
• Department of Neurology, Epilepsy and Headache group, the First Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Jixi Road 218, Hefei 230022, China. yw4d@hotmail.com.
• J Headache Pain. 2014 Apr 16; 15 (1): 1919.

AbstractRecurrent painful ophthalmoplegic neuropathy (RPON), formerly named ophthalmoplegic migraine (OM), is a rare condition characterized by the association of unilateral headaches and the ipsilateral oculomotor nerve palsy. The third cranial nerve is most commonly involved in the recurrent attacks. But it is still debated whether a migraine or an oculomotor neuropathy may be the primary cause of this disorder. Here, we report an elder patient who had a recurrent ophthalmoplegia starting with an unilateral headache circumscribed in an area shaped in a line linking the posterior-parietal region and the ipsilateral eye. And the headache had couple of features similar to that of migraine, such as past history of recurrent migraine attacks, accompaniments of nausea, vomiting, and phonophobia, response to flunarizine and sodium valproate. We may herein report a subtype of OM but not a RPON. This case report indicates that OM may exist as an entity and some OM may be wrongly grouped under the category of RPON in the current international headache classification.

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