Osmophobia in juvenile primary headaches.
Cephalalgia
; 28(8): 825-31, 2008 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
This study was planned to investigate the prevalence of osmophobia in juvenile headache sufferers and to analyse the diagnostic utility of osmophobia in order to distinguish migraine without aura from episodic tension-type headache. We examined 305 consecutive patients presenting at our Paediatric Headache Centre. A semistructured questionnaire was given to 275 selected patients affected by migraine or tension-type headache. The prevalence of osmophobia during attacks was 18.5%, mainly in migraine patients (25.1%) vs. those with tension-type headache (8.3%). Osmophobia showed more specificity than phonophobia or photophobia in the differential diagnosis between migraine and tension-type headache. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that osmophobia resulted in a symptom with poor sensitivity (27.1%) but high specificity (92%) that could become a supportive diagnostic criterion even in children for the differential diagnosis between migraine without aura and tension-type headache.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Trastornos Fóbicos
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Cefalea de Tipo Tensional
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Trastornos del Olfato
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Trastornos Migrañosos
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cephalalgia
Año:
2008
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia