To study the clinical pictures of recurrent headache in children and the application of International Headache Society Classification to children, 53 children with nonprogressing recurrent headache over than one month were evaluated.
@ES The results are as follows:
@EN 1) The sex ratio between male and female was 1: 1.2.
2) Diagnosed groups consisted of children with migraines in 22 cases(41.5%), tension-type headache in 19 cases(35.9%), coexisting migraine and tension-type headaches in 5 cases(9.4%), miscellaneous headaches not associated with structual lesion
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case(1.9%), headache associated wit vascular disorders in 2 cases(3.8%), headache associated with nonvascular intracranial disorder in 1 case(1.9%), headache due to facial pain in 3 cases (5.6%).
3) Of 22 migraine cases, 13 cases(59.1%) had migraine with aura, 8 cases(40.9%) have migraine without aura and of 19 tension-type headache cases, 8 cases(42.1%) have episodic type, 11(57.9%) cases have chronic type.
4) Of 53 cases with recurrent headache, 3 cases(6%) had abnormal findings in CT or MRI.
5) Of 53 cases with recurrent headache, 9 cases(17%) had abnormal findings in EEG.
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