Causes of headache in childhood
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Tarih
2006
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Özet
Headaches in childhood can be the result of serious organic events as well as the benign causes. In this paper, it is aimed to investigate the etiology of the headache complaint in childhood. This research is made retrospectively in 62 cases; 40 females and 22 males, who are 6-14 years old and admitted with the complaint of headache. The age of the beginning of the headache, duration, frequency, character, localization, intensity, accompanying factors, triggering factors, family history, physical and neurological examination, waters graphy, EEG, BBT and MRG datas are recorded. There were tension headache in 14 cases (22.6%), sinusitis in 11 (17.7%), migraine in 9 (14.5%), epilepsy in 6 (9.7%), posttraumatic headache in 5 (8.1%), headache related with eye disorders in 2 cases (6.4%), arachnoid cyst in 2 cases (3.2%), intracranial tumor in 1 case (3.2%) and unclassified headache in 10 cases (16.2%). In this study, the mostly seen causes of headaches in childhood are determined as tension headaches, migraine and sinusitis.
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Childhood, Headaches
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21
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2
