[Migraine and epilepsy in cerebral meningioma]

Even though the pathogenesis of migraine is entirely different from that of epilepsy, pointers towards their combined occurrence are frequent. Besides purely coincidental combinations, a variety of reasons is held responsible for this side-by-side occurrence. So far, cerebral meningiomas have been rarely reported for discussion. The following article reports on two cases showing that they, too, can cause the combined incidence of migraine and epilepsy. A woman of 60 years of age and a male patient aged 35 years presented with familial affliction and with a long-standing classical anamnesis of migraine. Epileptic attacks followed with varying latency. After cerebral meningiomas had been removed by surgery, the recurrence of both migraine-like and epileptic attacks ceased completely.