[Clinical and therapeutic aspects of headache of vascular origin in children].

Abstract

The authors present the problem of vascular headache at children: headaches caused by high blood pressure, aneurysm and other intracranial vascular malformations of the intracranial venous sinuses thrombosis (here, the determining factors are the infectious and inflammatory factors). Here are mentioned, one by one, the kinds of headaches, following the a/m classifications, with the clinical particularities and the therapeutical indications. There are reviewed a series of other causes of the headaches at children: headache caused by muscular contractions, the post traumatic headache, headache caused by cerebral tumours, by nasosinusal causes, ocular headache, headache caused by infections or metabolic diseases, and the psychogenic headache.