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This is a unilateral, periodic, pulsatile, severe pain in the craniofacial region that may wake from sleep, accompanied by autonomic phenomena. This includes pain syndromes such as migraine, cluster headache and paroxysmal hemicrania.
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(2007). Vascular-Type Craniofacial Pain. In: Schmidt, R., Willis, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29805-2_4730
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