A narrative review of visual hallucinations in migraine and epilepsy: similarities and differences in children and adolescents

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    Among epileptic patients, the prevalence of migraine ranges from 8 to 24% and some authors demonstrated an increased risk for unprovoked seizures in children having migraine with aura as opposed to migraine without aura (this finding is still to be confirmed ). Despite some well-established differences in clinical features between pediatric migraine with aura and developmental epilepsies presenting with visual hallucinations (such as childhood occipital epilepsy and symptomatic childhood occipital epilepsies/Gastaut-type), differential diagnosis may be challenging if atypical presentation occurs. In this review, the authors report the primary evidence on the clinical . . .

     

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