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CEPHALALGIA
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 1004-1009Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2006.01131.x
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hemiplegic migraine; migraine; migraine aura; migrainous infarction
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Prolonged hemiparetic migraine aura can cause diagnostic confusion and be mistaken for ischaemic stroke occurring during the course of a migraine-'migrainous infarction'. We report a case of prolonged hemiparesis occurring during the course of a migraine attack. Though initially confused with migrainous infarction, we suggest with sequential magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance angiography, diffusion, perfusion images and magnetic resonance spectroscopy that the hemiplegia was not of vascular origin and that the patient had sporadic hemiplegic migraine. We hypothesize that the mechanisms of sporadic hemiplegic migraine probably lie at a cellular level, similiar to familial hemiplegic migraine.
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