Short-Lasting Headaches in Children

Vieira, JP; Salgueiro, AB; Alfaro, M

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Authors

Vieira, JP

Salgueiro, AB

Alfaro, M

Abstract(s)

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 remaining 17 had a very brief headache. They were in many aspects comparable to others from previous studies on idiopathic stabbing headache in children: no associated symptoms, no other associated headache, frequent family history of migraine. They differed, however, in the younger age of the patients and themore frequent extratrigeminal location of the pain. Extratrigeminal ice-pick pain may be a variant of idiopathic stabbing headache, more prevalent in young children.

Keywords

Headache Disorders, Primary/diagnosis Headache Disorders, Primary/epidemiology Electroencephalography Remission, Spontaneous Severity of Illness Index Prevalence Time Factors Adolescent Child HDE NEU PED