Serious neurological disorders in children with chronic headache

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 937-940

  Abu Arafeh, I ^a,b   Macleod, S ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b Stirling Royal Infirmary   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; IBUPROFEN; METHOTREXATE; PIZOTIFEN; SUMATRIPTAN;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PAPILLEDEMA; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRABISMUS; TENSION HEADACHE; TREMOR; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER HEADACHE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 24144441001     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.067256     Document Type: Article

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