A migraine variant with abdominal colic and Alice in wonderland syndrome: A case report and review

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hamed, Sherifa A ^a,b  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; COLCHICINE; ELETRIPTAN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; VALPROIC ACID; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADL DISABILITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROME; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLIC; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MIGRAINE; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; ONSET AGE; PALLOR; RECURRENCE RISK; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROPATHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HALLUCINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN; COLIC; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SYNDROME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALPROIC ACID; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749164891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-2     Document Type: Article

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