BENIGN MIGRAINE‐LIKE SYNDROME WITH CSF PLEOCYTOSIS IN CHILDREN

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Abstract
Four children with symptoms consistent with complicated migraine had CSF pleocytosis, in 3 cases lymphocytic and in the 4th polymorphonuclear. In 1 case the CSF abnormality was found during 2 separate attacks of complicated migraines. On the basis of the 23 cases reported in the literature and these 4 personal cases, the authors conclude that, as a rule, pleocytosis is a secondary phenomenon of an attack of complicated migraine. However, in exceptional cases an infectious disease might produce both a migraine attack and CSF pleocytosis.

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