PERSISTENT POSITIVE VISUAL PHENOMENA IN MIGRAINE

Citation
Gt. Liu et al., PERSISTENT POSITIVE VISUAL PHENOMENA IN MIGRAINE, Neurology, 45(4), 1995, pp. 664-668
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00283878
Volume
45
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
664 - 668
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3878(1995)45:4<664:PPVPIM>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Ten patients with migraine developed persistent positive visual phenom ena lasting months to years. The complaints were similar in their simp licity and involvement of the entire visual field and usually consiste d of diffuse small particles such as TV static, snow, lines of ants, d ots, and rain. Neurologic and ophthalmologic examinations were normal, and EEGs were normal in eight of eight patients tested. MRI was norma l in all patients except one who had nonspecific biparietal white matt er lesions and another with a small venous angioma. Treatment of this unusual complication of migraine was unsuccessful.