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Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports 2/2016

01-02-2016 | Childhood and Adolescent Headache (S Evers, Section Editor)

Chronic Migraine in Children and Adolescents

Authors: Aynur Özge, Osman Özgür Yalın

Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports | Issue 2/2016

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Abstract

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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Metadata
Title
Chronic Migraine in Children and Adolescents
Authors
Aynur Özge
Osman Özgür Yalın
Publication date
01-02-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Pain and Headache Reports / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 1531-3433
Electronic ISSN: 1534-3081
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-016-0538-z

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