Acute convexity subarachnoid haemorrhage: A cause of aura-like symptoms in the elderly

Cephalalgia

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 658-663

  Kleinig, T J ^a   Kiley, M ^a   Thompson, P D ^a,b  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Migraine variant; Spreading cortical depression; Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRAINE AURA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 42949173672     PISSN: 03331024     EISSN: 14682982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2008.01570.x     Document Type: Article

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