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Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
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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.
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"The physical design and format are reader-friendly, and the bookis the size of a short hardcover novel, making it portable and easyto read on bus or train, rather than requiring that it be read at adesk to avoid the risk of injury, as is the case with so manymedical tomes." ( The Journal of the American MedicalAssociation , December 2009)
