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The patient presented here is a girl with pre-existing migraine without aura who developed additional migraine with aura at the age of 11 years initially occurring on an average of one attack per month. In the 4 months preceding menarche, she had a total of eight attacks of migraine with aura including one with prolonged aura. During follow-up until the age of 18 years, she had only one further attack of migraine with aura. The attacks of migraine without aura first continued for about 18 months with a frequency of once a month or less, then stopped completely for 2 years and finally recurred again with a frequency of 5 or 6 mild to moderate attacks per year. Diagnostic criteria, differential diagnoses, clinical features and treatment of migraine with aura in children will be discussed.
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Wöber-Bingöl, Ç. (2016). A Child with Frequent Attacks of Migraine with Aura. In: Abu-Arafeh, I., Özge, A. (eds) Headache in Children and Adolescents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28628-0_5
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