Short-Lasting Headaches in Children

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...

Woman With Short-Lasting, Strictly Unilateral Headaches

A 47-year-old woman complains of severe headaches that involve only the right orbital, temporal, and occipital areas. She describes the pain as sharp and stabbing, and she rates its severity as 9 or 10 on a 10-point visual analog scale. The headaches last an average of 15 to 30 minutes and usually occur daily. She may have as many as 6 attacks a day; occasionally they also occur at night, wakin...

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...