Headache in the Pediatric Patient
1. Abnormal neurological examination 2. Recent headache of less than 6 months with a progressive course 3. Atypical presentation of headache Intractable vomiting, headache wakening the child from sleep, vertigo,…
Migraine with Aura: A CADASIL Case
Fig. 8.1 Cerebral MRI scan showing extensive white matter hyperintensities (leukoencephalopathy) and multiple lacunar lesions. The white-matter hyperintensities were located periventricularly and in frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes of both…
Complicated Migraine
Fig. 7.1 (a) Diffusion-weighted image (DWI) 3 weeks after symptom onset does not show acute signs of ischemia anymore, (b) small laminar necrosis in the occipital cortex suggests migrainous infarction…
Hemiplegic Migraine
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Aksel Siva and Christian Lampl (eds.)Case-Based Diagnosis and Management of Headache DisordersHeadache10.1007/978-3-319-06886-2_4 4. Hemiplegic Migraine Anders Hougaard1 and Messoud Ashina1 (1) Danish Headache Center and Department of Neurology, Faculty of Health and…
Migraine with Typical Aura
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Aksel Siva and Christian Lampl (eds.)Case-Based Diagnosis and Management of Headache DisordersHeadache10.1007/978-3-319-06886-2_2 2. Migraine with Typical Aura Jes Olesen1 and Elena Lebedeva2 (1) Department of Neurology, Danish Headache Centre, University of Copenhagen,…
Abdominal Pain Associated with Migraine
Fig. 15.1 (a, b) MRI scans showed Dandy-Walker malformation and thin corpus callosum 15.3 Diagnostic Workup of the Case This patient was diagnosed with childhood/adolescent migraine associated with abdominal pain…
Migraine in the Elderly
Fig. 16.1 Late Life Migraine Equivalents (52-year-old man with former migraine: drawings reporting visual phenomena) 16.3.1 Case History Since the age of 11 one-two times per year, the patient has…
Refractory Chronic Migraine: Therapy with Combined Peripheral Neurostimulation
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Aksel Siva and Christian Lampl (eds.)Case-Based Diagnosis and Management of Headache DisordersHeadache10.1007/978-3-319-06886-2_12 12. Refractory Chronic Migraine: Therapy with Combined Peripheral Neurostimulation Roberto Arcioni1 and Paolo Martelletti2 (1) Pain Therapy Unit, Department of…
When Headache Becomes “Troublesome” in a Child: What May Be Behind Chronification of Pediatric Migraine?
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Aksel Siva and Christian Lampl (eds.)Case-Based Diagnosis and Management of Headache DisordersHeadache10.1007/978-3-319-06886-2_13 13. When Headache Becomes “Troublesome” in a Child: What May Be Behind Chronification of Pediatric Migraine? Vincenzo Guidetti1 and…
Chronic Migraine Complicated by Medication Overuse Headache
Fig. 5.1 Presence of WMHs as indicated by the circle The patient arrived at our Emergency Department (ED) suffering from headache not responding to analgesics and, despite not being positive…
