ABDOMINAL EPILEPSY VERSUS "ABDOMINAL MIGRAINE"
Authors: M T MOORE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1950)

Article1 July 1950ABDOMINAL EPILEPSY VERSUS "ABDOMINAL MIGRAINE"MATTHEW T. MOORE, M.D., F.A.C.P.MATTHEW T. MOORE, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-33-1-122 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe older clinical descriptions of the migraine syndrome have been little altered in this era in which interest has been centered on the basic neurophysiologic mechanisms involved in the migraine attack. It is still accepted that there exist clinical variants of common migraine or hemicrania, such as ophthalmic migraine, abdominal migraine, psychic equivalents of migraine, ophthalmoplegic migraine and facioplegic migraine. These variants remain to be explained. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Read before the American Branch, International League Against Epilepsy, Atlantic City, June 14, 1948. Received for publication March 12, 1949.From University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine. 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