Cefalea pediatrica

Cefalea e vomito, a pensar male spesso ci si azzecca

Zanin F

2025/9 — pag. 247-248 — DOI

An 11-year-old boy presenting with occipital headache and vomiting was diagnosed with a posterior fossa pilocytic astrocytoma. This case underscores the need to promptly identify red flag symptoms in paediatric headaches and to perform timely neuroim...

Le drusen del nervo ottico

Fusco F

2025/8 — pag. 213-213 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 5-year-old child presenting with acute headache and bilateral papilledema on fundus examination. Brain MRI was unremarkable, while subsequent ophthalmologic evaluations identified optic nerve drusen as the cause of t...

C'è mal di testa ...e mal di testa

Barachino A

2025/3 — pag. 68-69 — DOI

The paper reports two paediatric headache cases with initially negative clinical findings but vastly different outcomes. The first regarded a girl subjected to excessive medical evaluations, reflecting parental anxiety and overmedicalization. The sec...

Vomito mattutino e cefalea: pensa male

Fenato A.

2024/6 — pag. 395-395 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a six-year-old child with progressively worsening headaches and morning vomiting over several months, initially attributed to an emotional disturbance. A pilocytic astrocytoma of the posterior cranial fossa was eventuall...

L’occhio (non) fa sempre la differenza: quando il sospetto clinico guida per mano la diagnosi

Biuso A, Baresi S, Agostinelli M, Chillemi C, Di Frenna M, Zuccotti GV.

2024/5 — pag. 329-331 — DOI

The case of a 13-year-old child presenting with persistent headache and occasional vomiting is described. Diplopia and papilledema were observed. Eventually, based on an MRI, the diagnosis of idiopathic pseudotumour cerebri was made, and treatment wi...

La cefalea: il ruolo dell’oculista

Degrassi M, Campone C.

2023/8 — pag. 488-489 — DOI

Mal di testa? Non pensare all’oculista

Campone C, Negro I, Vandone M

2023/6 — pag. 104-104 — DOI

The paper describes the case of a 3-year-old girl presenting with worsening and severe headache initially attributed to astigmatism that was finally diagnosed as cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma....

Cefalea e rettocolite ulcerosa: trombosi cerebrale alle porte?

Di Stasio F, Amoroso A, Sansotta N, Casotti V, D’Antiga L

2021/2 — pag. 127-129

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious extraintestinal complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Patients with IBD have a VTE risk 3 times greater than those without IBD. IBD children are exposed to that risk as well but with lower inciden...

Cefalea persistente in una bambina con rettocolite ulcerosa: pensa alla trombosi venosa

Graziano F, Scalzo S, Scalisi M, Restivo GA, Felice S, Acierno C, Cassata N, Citrano M

2021/2 — pag. 42-46 — DOI

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have an increased risk of thromboembolic complications, especially during the active phase of the disease. Cerebral thromboembolism is a rare extra-intestinal complication, associated with high risk of morbidi...

Cefalea e rettocolite ulcerosa: trombosi cerebrale alle porte?

Di Stasio F, Amoroso A, Sansotta N, Casotti V, D’Antiga L

2021/2 — pag. 39-41 — DOI

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious extraintestinal complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Patients with IBD have a VTE risk 3 times greater than those without IBD. IBD children are exposed to that risk as well but with lower inciden...

Una cefalea importante

G. Acucella, E. Eljerbi, G. Grugni, A. Guala

2018/3 — pag. 192-193

Avevo una cosa per la testa…

S. Ciccone, E. Maria G. Marrella, A. Fumarola, S. Tagliati, E. Fiumana

2014/1

Occhio...al mal di testa!

V. Moressa, C. Zuiani, K. Vecchiato, F. Poropat

2013/2

Piccolo Proust

A. Skabar

2012/6 — pag. 397-398

Un esordio particolare di emicrania con aura

C. Calitri, M. Bonzanino, A. Travierso

2009/7

Un caso di emicrania confusionale

C. Locatelli, R. Ciambra, S. Facchini, M. Bensa, V. Leone, V. Moretti, M. Pocecco

2003/6