Chronic Migraine in Children and Adolescents
Chronic migraine is defined as having more than 15 headache days in a month, half of these showing migraine features, for at least 3 months. It is a chronic painful syndrome with aspects such as psychiatric comorbid, decreased quality of life, and environmental and intrinsic psychological factors th...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Current pain and headache reports 2016-02, Vol.20 (2), p.14-14, Article 14 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Chronic migraine is defined as having more than 15 headache days in a month, half of these showing migraine features, for at least 3 months. It is a chronic painful syndrome with aspects such as psychiatric comorbid, decreased quality of life, and environmental and intrinsic psychological factors that make face-to-face treatment difficult. Children and adolescent migraine differ from adults as a result of growing brain and evolving disorder. In this paper, we will emphasize the definition, diagnosis, epidemiology, burden of life, and management of chronic migraine in children and adolescent. |
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ISSN: | 1531-3433 1534-3081 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11916-016-0538-z |