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Contact Thermography in the Diagnosis of Childhood Migraine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

R. Wolstein Jörg ,
H. Reed Martin ,
S. Seshia Shashi ,
P. Kubrakovich ,
B. Linsey  and
A. Samuel
R. Wolstein Jörg*
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Neurosciences (J.R.W., S.S.S.) and Pediatric Radiology (M.H.R., P.K., B.L., A.S.), Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Children's Hospital and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
H. Reed Martin*
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Neurosciences (J.R.W., S.S.S.) and Pediatric Radiology (M.H.R., P.K., B.L., A.S.), Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Children's Hospital and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
S. Seshia Shashi*
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Neurosciences (J.R.W., S.S.S.) and Pediatric Radiology (M.H.R., P.K., B.L., A.S.), Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Children's Hospital and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
P. Kubrakovich*
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Neurosciences (J.R.W., S.S.S.) and Pediatric Radiology (M.H.R., P.K., B.L., A.S.), Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Children's Hospital and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
B. Linsey*
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Neurosciences (J.R.W., S.S.S.) and Pediatric Radiology (M.H.R., P.K., B.L., A.S.), Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Children's Hospital and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
A. Samuel*
Affiliation:
Sections of Pediatric Neurosciences (J.R.W., S.S.S.) and Pediatric Radiology (M.H.R., P.K., B.L., A.S.), Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Children's Hospital and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
*
Section of Pediatric Neurosciences, University of Manitoba and Children's Hospital, AE-208 840 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3A ISI
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The objective of our prospective study was to assess the role of contact thermography in children with migraine. Contact thermograms were done in 54 children aged 4.2 - 16.5 years (median 10.5 years), who were seen for headache and on 10 age-matched controls, between July and December 1991. Thermograms were interpreted as definitely normal, equivocally normal, equivocally abnormal, and definitely abnormal by a radiologist who was blinded to clinical information. Forty-eight children had the test between headaches; of these, four out of 26 patients (15%) who had migraine without aura and 3 out of 14 children (21%) who had migraine with aura had definitely abnormal thermograms. Nine out of 10 normal controls had definitely normal thermograms. The sensitivity of contact thermography in the diagnosis of childhood migraine, when done between headaches, was low in our study.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , August 1993 , pp. 222 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1993

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