title: Migraine and other clinical syndromes in children affected by EEG occipital spike-wave complexes.
abstract: Twenty EEG recordings obtained in children showed temporo-parieto occipital or temporo-occipital spikes or spike-wave complexes suppressed by eye-opening. Patients showed different neurological syndromes: classic migraine, vertebrobasilar migraine, visual phenomena, epilepsy, psychomotor retardation. Thirteen subjects were affected by epileptic seizures, which were preceded by visual phenomena in 12 cases. In 6 cases, a combination of classic migraine, visual phenomena and seizures was found. In one case of vertebrobasilar migraine, seizures occurred 5 years after the first episode of migraine. Follow-up data indicate a non-benign evolution of occipital epilepsy: partial or generalized seizures persisted in 13 treated cases. Moreover, the EEG finding of occipital spike-wave complexes seems to extend to different neurological syndromes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Romanis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Feliciani
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cerbo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*