This book is a foundation for further study into childhood headache and serve as a quick, up-to-date reference for the recognition, diagnosis, basic understanding, evaluation and management of headache disorders in children and adolescents.
* Covers primary headache disorders including migraine
* Covers secondary headaches, including sinus, and post traumatic headache
* Provides thoughtful guidelines on behavioural management strategies as well as pharmacologic therapies
Pediatric Headaches in Clinical Practice
Chapter 1: History of Childhood Headaches.
Epidemiology, Classification and Pathophysiology of pediatric headaches.
Chapter 2: Evaluation and Classification.
Chapter 3: Diagnostic Testing and Concerning Variants.
Chapter 4: Epidemiology of Pediatric Headaches.
Chapter 5: Impact of Childhood Headaches.
Chapter 6: Emergent evaluation and management.
Chapter 7: Pathophysiology.
Primary Headache Disorders.
Chapter 8: Migraine: Diagnosis and Treatment.
Chapter 9: Migraine Variants and the Periodic Syndromes.
Chapter10: Tension-type headache: Diagnosis and Treatment.
Chapter 11: Chronic Daily Headaches in Children.
Chapter 12: Other Primary Headache Disorders.
Chapter 13: Biobehavioral Management of Childhood Headaches.
Secondary Headache Disorders.
Chapter 14: Sinus Headache and Nasal Disease.
Chapter 15: Post-traumatic Headaches.
Chapter 16: Headaches associated with altered intracranial pressure.
Chapter 17: Other Secondary Headaches.
Index.