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The electroencephalogram in childhood basilar artery migraine

Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

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.

Dr. Lapkin's address is Chief, Division of Child Neurology, Department of Neurology, Walson Army Hospital, Fort Dix, NJ 08640.

This work was supported in part by training grant award 5 T01 NS 5325 from the National Institutes of Health.

Received for publication July 2, 1976.

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				M. L. Lapkin and G. S. Golden Basilar Artery Migraine: A Review of 30 Cases Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, March 1, 1978; 132(3): 278 - 281. [Abstract] [PDF]