title: Migraine and headache in childhood and adolescence.
abstract: Headache is one of the most common physical complaints of children and adults. The authors have provided definitions of headache, a classification system, diagnostic evaluations appropriate for children, and treatment options for patients with acute and chronic headache. Also, this article has emphasized the importance of diagnosing and treating migraine headache, a painful malady that is extensively underestimated and misdiagnosed in the pediatric population and one that can be treated acutely and when appropriate prophylactically with great success. Lack of a specific biologic marker, specific investigation, or brain imaging reduce these clinical entities too often to a psychological illness. Nonpharmacologic treatments are pivotal to manage chronic headaches. Migraine therapy, if administered early and through the appropriate route, could provide important and rapid relief.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Pain Clinic, Unité fonctionnelle d'analgésie pédiatrique, Hôpital d'enfants Armand Tousseau, Paris, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Annequin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tourniaire
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Massiou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006261:Headache / Q000145:classification / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D012008:Recurrence