The Dexamethasone Suppression Test in Essential Headache
作者:
Rita Formisano,
Paolo Falaschi,
Giuliana Cusimano,
Gianluigi Cesare,
Maria Gabriella Buzzi,
Antonella Proietti,
Teresa Catarci,
Rosanna Cerbo,
期刊:
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain
(WILEY Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 28,
issue 1
页码: 51-52
ISSN:0017-8748
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2524.1988.hed2801051.x
出版商: American Association for the Study of Headache/Blackwell Science Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SYNOPSISAfter neuropsychological evaluation, we administered the dexamethasone suppression test to eleven patientssuffering from muscle‐contraction headache and to thirteen patients affected by migraine, in order to verify a possiblecorrelation between a chronic pain such as headache and a cortisolemic response to dexamethasone. None of themappeared to be suffering from depressive syndrome; all patients were DST suppressors. These data suggest that thedexamethasone suppression test does not correlate with chronic pain, but with depression, consistent with the highspecificity of this marker test for depressio
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