Recurrent Gastrointestinal Disturbance: Abdominal Migraine and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Irwin, Samantha ^a   Barmherzig, Rebecca ^a   Gelfand, Amy ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal migraine; Childhood migraine equivalents; Cyclic vomiting; Cyclical vomiting; Episodic syndromes of childhood; Migraine

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; APREPITANT; CARNITINE; CLONIDINE; CYPROHEPTADINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUNARIZINE; INFUSION FLUID; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PIZOTIFEN; PROPRANOLOL; RIBOFLAVIN; SUMATRIPTAN; TOPIRAMATE; UBIDECARENONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL MIGRAINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FECES CULTURE; FLUID INTAKE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PAIN SEVERITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; URINE CULTURE; VOMITING; CHILD; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; SYNDROME;

CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 85014945779     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-017-0731-4     Document Type: Review

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