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Pediatric hemiplegic migraine: susceptibility weighted and MR perfusion imaging abnormality

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We report on an 11-year-old girl suffering from a typical attack of hemiplegic migraine with characteristic abnormalities in perfusion MR and susceptibility-weighted MR imaging findings. The imaging abnormalities were resolved 48 h after the attack. Susceptibility-weighted MR imaging findings correlated well with the MR perfusion, thus it can be used along with conventional MRI for evaluation of children with complex migraine attacks. Susceptibility-weighted MR imaging might have a diagnostic role in assessing the vascular events in hemiplegic migraine.

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Altinok, D., Agarwal, A., Ascadi, G. et al. Pediatric hemiplegic migraine: susceptibility weighted and MR perfusion imaging abnormality. Pediatr Radiol 40, 1958–1961 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-010-1826-0

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