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Basilar artery migraine

Drábek P

Ceskoslovenska neurologie a neurochirurgie, 1989

Abstract

The author describes two clinical observations of migraine of the basilar artery: with infarction of the cerebellar hemisphere in a 21-year-old woman and migraine equivalents of transient homonymous hemianopsia in a 27-year-old man. The author analyzed the clinical picture and assessed seven diagnostic criteria of migraine of the basilar artery. In the prophylaxis of migrainous attacks in both instanes metipranolol-80 mg/day-proved effective.

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