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3D-Neuronavigation In Vivo Through a Patient's Brain During a Spontaneous Migraine Headache
Published on: June 2, 2014
[An extended migraine]
A Faivre1, T La Folie, A Dagain
1Service de Neurologie, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Sainte-Anne, Toulon, France. anthonyfa@wanadoo.fr
Abstract:
Migrainous infarction is a rare ischemic stroke developing during an attack of migraine, which is more prevalent in young woman and preferentially affects the posterior cerebral circulation. The case of a migrainous 35-old patient with patent foramen ovale admitted in neurology department for a typical migrainous infarction is reported and compared with a literature review. Furthermore, this case report highlights the existence of complex epidemiologic and physiopathologic links between cerebral ischemia, migraine and patent foramen ovale.
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