Abstract
Symonds [1] performed four lumbar punctures (LPs) or pneumoencephalograms (PEGs) on 21 patients with the benign cough headache syndrome. One of these patients, a 38-year-old woman, developed a typical LP headache, but her cough headache syndrome remitted for 3 weeks only to recur. After a PEG, she had no further cough headaches. Another of Symonds' patients with Paget's disease of the skull with basilar impression also ceased having headache after PEG. Rooke [3] reported that 28 LPs were performed on 93 patients with the benign syndrome; one patient dramatically stopped having headache after the procedure. I now report my experience with both LP and indomethacin in the treatment of this condition. Between 1978 …
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