Abstract

Migraine is a common problem in children and adolescents. Basilar-type migraine is rare, but it causes significant pain and disability from its unusual aura symptoms. It occurs most commonly in teenage girls, and causes them to give up school work. The diagnostic criteria was modified according to 2nd international classification of headache disorders (ICHD) which has been recently revised, and molecular biological tests were developed which resulted in growing attention to basilar type migraine and hemiplegic migraine these days. This article is for diagnostic criteria, aura symptoms, treatment of basilar-type migraine, which improve to understand headache in children and adolescents.