[A migraine hemisyndrome in childhood]

Authors consider that migraine hemisyndrome is the unilateral development of neurological signs and symptoms both in the prodromic and critical stages of migraine. Symptoms usually are not limited to the territory of only one cerebral artery in each one of the episodes. More common symptoms are the visual ones followed by sensitive and motor together with frequent dysphasia. Incidence in childhood is not well known, ranging in several series between 5 and 10.7% of all the cases of migraine. Authors reviewed 127 cases of migraine in children under 14 years old detecting 7 cases (5.51%) of migraine hemisyndrome in childhood. Incidence, age of onset, sex, personal and family history, clinical features, triggering factors and diagnostic and therapeutical approach are analyzed.