Acute confusional migraine: Our knowledge to date

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-314

  Schipper, Sivan ^a   Riederer, Franz ^a   Sándor, Peter S ^b   Gantenbein, Andreas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Neurorehabilitation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

acute confusional migraine; adult; aura; children; confusion; cortical spreading depression; migraine; mild trauma

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CONFUSIONAL MIGRAINE; AGITATION; ALERTNESS; AMNESIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEAD INJURY; MIGRAINE; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS;

EID: 84857930554     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.12.4     Document Type: Review

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