Headaches in children

Headaches in children.

[Headaches in children].

Headaches in children.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article provides an overview of the differences in epidemiology, presentation, and treatment of pediatric headache compared to adult headache. NEW FINDINGS New proposals are presented regarding the classification of pediatric migraine and ophthalmoplegic migraine. The distinction between basilar migraine and migraine with aura is reconsidered. SUMMARY Pediatric headac...

Headaches in children and adolescents.

Headaches are common during childhood and become more common and increase in frequency during adolescence. The rational, cost-effective evaluation of children with headache begins with a careful history. The first step is to identify the temporal pattern of the headache--acute, acute-recurrent, chronic-progressive, chronic-nonprogressive, or mixed. The next step is a physical and neurologic exa...

Short-lasting headaches in children.

Short-lasting headaches have been studied infrequently in children and it is not known if the main categories of primary headaches of this type in adults are applicable to children. We report our experience with a group of 20 children with a brief headache. Two patients had a secondary headache. One patient had a headache with some clinical characteristics of paroxysmal hemicrania. The remainin...