title: A patient of migraine-like headache with amnesia, pleocytosis and transient hypoperfusion of cerebral blood flow.
abstract: Pseudomigraine with pleocytosis (PMP) is an uncommon disease in Japan. The diagnostic criteria include at least one episode of transient neurological deficit accompanied or followed by migraine-like severe headache, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytosis, and normal neuroimaging. Both the etiology and the pathophysiology of PMP is not yet well defined. We report a 40-year-old man with a PMP-like syndrome. He came to our clinic because of severe throbbing headache and amnesia, and the examination showed CSF lymphocytosis of 23/mm3, a transient decrease of cerebral blood flow in the left thalamus. All the symptoms were completely resolved within 2 months.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi.
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tada
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Negoro
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: Jun-ichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ogasawara
authors.forename: Motoharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawai
authors.forename: Mitsunori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morimatsu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000647:Amnesia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008218:Lymphocytosis / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D013577:Syndrome; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D013788:Thalamus / Q000503:physiopathology; D013997:Time Factors; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon