Ictal epileptic headache mimicking status migrainosus: EEG and DWI-MRI findings

Headache

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 160-162

  Belcastro, Vincenzo ^a   Striano, Pasquale ^d   Pierguidi, Laura ^a   Calabresi, Paolo ^b,c   Tambasco, Nicola ^b,c  

^a SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^d G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG; epilepsy; migraine; status epilepticus; status migrainosus

Indexed keywords

IBUPROFEN; LORAZEPAM; PARACETAMOL; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; ICTAL HEADACHE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIGRAINE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LORAZEPAM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650937533     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01709.x     Document Type: Article

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