Migraine variants and mimics

Title: Migraine variants and mimics
Creator: Wilkinson, Ian A.
Relation: Current Management in Child Neurology p. 55-61
Relation: http://www.pmph.com/en
Publisher: BC Decker / People's Medical Publishing House
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2009
Description: In the last decade, there have been many developments in understanding migraine pathophysiology. The belief that the clinical features of migraine can be explained solely by sequential vasoconstriction and vasodilatation of blood vessels has been challenged. Newer proposed mechanisms place more emphasis on the brainstem playing a complex role as a modulator of a range of inputs and outputs, with major involvement of the trigeminovascular system and with final impact on pain-producing structures of the cranium. It is not appropriate to go into the detail of these proposed mechanisms, but many of the migraine variants and mimics discussed in this chapter can perhaps be interpreted more easily if we think of primary neurological mechanisms as being at the basis of etiology and clinical manifestations.
Description: 4th ed.
Subject: migraine pathophysiologies; familial hemiplegic migraines; sporadic hemiplegic migraines; basilar type migraines
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918542
Identifier: uon:8643
Identifier: ISBN:9781607950004
Language: eng

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