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Bilateral Occipital Lobe Infarction in Acute Migraine: Clinical, Neurophysiological, and Neuroradiological Study.
Author(s) -
Ganji S.,
Williams Warren,
Furlow Jennifer
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1992.hed3207360.x
Subject(s) - migraine , occipital lobe , medicine , brainstem , stroke (engine) , magnetic resonance imaging , infarction , electroencephalography , somatosensory system , cerebral infarction , clinical neurophysiology , cardiology , neuroscience , anesthesia , radiology , psychology , ischemia , psychiatry , myocardial infarction , mechanical engineering , engineering
SYNOPSIS A woman having common migraine attacks coincident with an asymmetrical bilateral occipital lobs infarction that spared the brainstem and cerebellum underwent these studies: serial electroencephalography, brainstem auditory, visual end somatosensory evoked potentials, magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and cerebral arteriography. The patient's vision improved greatly during a one‐year followup. The absence of risk factors for stroke suggested that migraine caused the infarction in the posterior circulation network. The pathophysiological mechanisms of stroke in migraine remains speculative.