Unusual Primary Headaches of Children and Adolescents: Practical tips for physicians

Year 2020, Issue: 2, 338 - 343, 04.06.2020

Nevra Öksüz Halit Fidancı Aynur Özge

https://doi.org/10.18521/ktd.452016

Abstract

Childhood
and adolescent headaches somehow looks like adulthood headaches but not known
as its. In this paper eight rare known primary headache disorders of children
and adolescents have been given with practical clues for physicians. All of the
cases have been selected from the archives of Mersin University School of
Medicine Childhood and Adolescent Headache Outpatient Department database and
discussed with literature. This paper mainly based on increasing physician
avareness about unusual primary headache disorders of children and adolescents. 

Keywords

childhood, headache, migrain

Çocukluk Çağı ve Ergenlik Döneminin Nadir Primer Baş Ağrıları: Hekimler için pratik ipuçları

Abstract

Çocukluk
çağı ve ergenlik döneminin baş ağrıları bir şekilde erişkin baş ağrılarına
benzese de, erişkin baş ağrıları kadar bilinmez. Bu yazıda çocuk ve ergenlere ait sekiz nadir bilinen primer baş ağrısı pratik ipuçları ile
birlikte verilmiştir. Olguların tamamı Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Çocuk
ve Adolesan Baş Ağrısı Polikliniği veritabanının arşivlerinden seçilmiş ve
literatür eşliğinde tartışılmıştır. Bu makale özellikle çocuk ve ergenlerin
nadir primer baş ağrıları hakkında hekimin farkındalığını arttırmayı temel
almaktadır.

Keywords

Çocukluk çağı, baş ağrısı, migren

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