What have we learned about ictal epileptic headache? A review of well-documented cases

Seizure

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 253-258

  Parisi, Pasquale ^a   Striano, Pasquale ^b   Verrotti, Alberto ^c   Villa, Maria Pia ^a   Belcastro, Vincenzo ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomic seizures; Clinical EEG criteria; Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Headache; Headache and epilepsy comorbidity; Ictal epileptic headache; Ictal epileptic semiology; Migraine; New classification criteria

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CARBAMAZEPINE; CODEINE; DIAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; IBUPROFEN; LORAZEPAM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PHENYTOIN; PIZOTIFEN; PROPRANOLOL; SULTIAME; SUMATRIPTAN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; ICTAL EPILEPTIC HEADACHE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876045165     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2013.01.013     Document Type: Review

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