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Infiltrative cervical lesions causing symptomatic occipital neuralgia.

[pyomyositis]

Occipital neuralgia is a well-recognized cause of posterior head and neck pain that may associate mild sensory changes in the cutaneous distribution of the occipital nerves, lacking a recognizable local structural aetiology in most cases. Atypical clinical features or an abnormal neurological examination are alerts for a potential underlying cause of pain, although cases of clinically typical occipital neuralgia as isolated manifestation of lesions of the cervical spinal cord, cervical roots, or occipital nerves have been increasingly reported.We describe two cases (one with typical and another one with atypical clinical features) of occipital neuralgia secondary to paravertebral pyomyositis and vertebral relapse of multiple myeloma in patients with relevant medical history that aroused the possibility of an underlying structural lesion.We discuss the need for cranio-cervical magnetic resonance imaging in all patients with occipital neuralgia, even when typical clinical features are present and neurological examination is completely normal.

Diseases presenting "pain" symptom

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  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • adrenomyeloneuropathy
  • aniridia
  • aromatase deficiency
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • coats disease
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • congenital toxoplasmosis
  • cushing syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • cystinuria
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • dentin dysplasia
  • dracunculiasis
  • dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • erythropoietic protoporphyria
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • esophageal carcinoma
  • esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
  • fabry disease
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • focal myositis
  • hirschsprung disease
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • holt-oram syndrome
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • kabuki syndrome
  • kindler syndrome
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • liposarcoma
  • locked-in syndrome
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • oligodontia
  • oral submucous fibrosis
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • phenylketonuria
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • primary hyperoxaluria type 1
  • proteus syndrome
  • pyomyositis
  • scrub typhus
  • sneddon syndrome
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • trochlear dysplasia
  • typhoid
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

This symptom has already been validated