Migralepsy: Is the current definition too narrow?

Headache

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1129-1132

  Maggioni, Ferdinando ^a   Mampreso, Edoardo ^a   Ruffatti, Silvia ^a   Viaro, Federica ^a   Lunardelli, Viviana ^a   Zanchin, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Migraine with aura; Migraine without aura; Migralepsy; Status epilepticus

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 46749114430     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2008.01091.x     Document Type: Article

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