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Chronic Migraine in Children and Adolescents

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Chronic migraine is defined as having more than 15 headache days in a month, half of these showing migraine features, for at least 3 months. It is a chronic painful syndrome with aspects such as psychiatric comorbid, decreased quality of life, and environmental and intrinsic psychological factors that make face-to-face treatment difficult. Children and adolescent migraine differ from adults as a result of growing brain and evolving disorder. In this paper, we will emphasize the definition, diagnosis, epidemiology, burden of life, and management of chronic migraine in children and adolescent.

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Özge, A., Yalın, O.Ö. Chronic Migraine in Children and Adolescents. Curr Pain Headache Rep 20, 14 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-016-0538-z

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