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The transient syndrome of headache with neurologic deficits and CSF lymphocytosis

From the Department of Neurology, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Received October 31, 1994. Accepted in final form February 3, 1995.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Michel J. Berg, Box 673, Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642.

We describe seven patients who experienced a transient syndrome consisting of headache with neurologic deficits and CSF lymphocytic pleocytosis.Thirty-three similar patients have been reported previously. All had from one to more than 20 episodes of a severe migrainous headache accompanied by a temporary neurologic deficit and lymphocytes in the CSF. Some patients had a preceding viral syndrome, increased intracranial pressure, elevated CSF protein, or focal EEG abnormalities. All stopped having episodes within 3 months. We present diagnostic criteria for this benign syndrome. Its cause remains unknown.

NEUROLOGY 1995;45: 1648-1654

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