Abstracts: Lapkin ML (1977)
Lapkin ML, French JH, Golden GS, Rowan AJ (1977) The electroencephalogram in childhood
basilar artery migraine. Neurology 27:580-583
In two pediatric patients with the clinical picture of basilar artery migraine,
transient electroencephalographic disturbances were seen. Both children manifested
posterior rhythmic delta activity in close temporal proximity to their attacks. Resolution
of these abnormalities was documented by serial electroencephalographic tracings. These
electroencephalographic findings are consistent with transient dysfunction in the neural
structures supplied by the basilar artery and its branches. Pediatric patients in whom
there is a clinical picture of basilar artery migraine and who have a family history of
migraine and transient electroencephalographic changes of the type herein described need
not undergo invasive neurodiagnostic study.
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