Occipital Headaches and Neuroimaging in Children  

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Bear, Joshua J. ; Gelfand, Amy A. ; Goadsby, Peter J. ; Bass, Nancy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Neurology (Official Journal of The American Academy of Neurology) vol. 89 no. 05 (Aug. 2017), page 469-474.
Topik: Occipital Headaches; Neuroimaging
Fulltext: N11 v89 n5 p469 kelik2017.pdf (198.83KB)

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Objective: To investigate the common thinking, as reinforced by the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition (beta), that occipital headaches in children are rare and suggestive of serious intracranial pathology. Methods: We performed a retrospective chart review cohort study of all patients =18 years of age referred to a university child neurology clinic for headache in 2009. Patients were stratified by headache location: solely occipital, occipital plus other area(s) of head pain, or no occipital involvement. Children with abnormal neurologic examinations were excluded. We assessed location as a predictor of whether neuroimaging was ordered and whether intracranial pathology was found. Analyses were performed with cohort study tools in Stata/SE 13.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX). Results: A total of 308 patients were included. Median age was 12 years (32 months–18 years), and 57% were female. Headaches were solely occipital in 7% and occipital-plus in 14%. Patients with occipital head pain were more likely to undergo neuroimaging than those without occipital involvement (solely occipital: 95%, relative risk [RR] 10.5, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.4–77.3; occipital-plus: 88%, RR 3.7, 95% CI 1.5–9.2; no occipital pain: 63%, referent). Occipital pain alone or with other locations was not significantly associated with radiographic evidence of clinically significant intracranial pathology. Conclusions: Children with occipital headache are more likely to undergo neuroimaging. In the absence of concerning features on the history and in the setting of a normal neurologic examination, neuroimaging can be deferred in most pediatric patients when occipital pain is present.

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