Elementary visual hallucinations, blindness, and headache in idiopathic occipital epilepsy: differentiation from migraine
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Elementary visual hallucinations, blindness, and headache in idiopathic occipital epilepsy: differentiation from migraine.
This is a qualitative and chronological analysis of ictal and postictal symptoms, frequency of seizures, family history, response to treatment, and prognosis in nine patients with idiopathic occipital epilepsy and visual seizures. Ictal elementary visual hallucinations are stereotyped for each patient, usually lasting for seconds. They consist of mainly multiple, bright coloured, small circular...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.66.4.536