Seizure or migraine? The eternal dilemma: Comment on: "Recurrent occipital seizures misdiagnosed as status migrainosus" by italiano et al. (Epileptic Disord 2011;13:197-201)

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 456-

  Belcastro, Vincenzo ^a   Striano, Pasquale ^b   Parisi, Pasquale ^c  

^a SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE;

BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM;

EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 84857831466     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2011.0466     Document Type: Letter

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