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Cysticercosis Headache: An Important Differential of Childhood Headache Disorder in Endemic Countries
Author(s) -
Mishra Devendra
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2006.00702.x
Subject(s) - neurocysticercosis , cysticercosis , migraine , medicine , pediatrics , differential diagnosis , dermatology , pathology , psychiatry
Neurocysticercosis is a common pediatric central nervous system (CNS) disease in endemic areas, presenting usually with seizures but has pleomorphic manifestations, including migraine‐like secondary headache. We herein report a pediatric patient with tension‐type headache as the sole presenting feature of single cysticercus granuloma.