Neurol. praxi. 2023;24(2):146-150 | DOI: 10.36290/neu.2023.002

Left­‑sided hemicrania - not a migraine!

MUDr. Petr Hollý^{1, 2}, MUDr. Ivana Slámová³, MUDr. Svatopluk Ostrý, Ph.D.^{2, 4}

¹ Neurologická klinika a centrum klinických neurověd 1. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy a Všeobecné fakultní nemocnice v Praze

² Neurologické oddělení, Nemocnice České Budějovice, a. s.

³ Infekční oddělení, Nemocnice České Budějovice, a. s.

⁴ Neurochirurgická a Neuroonkologická klinika, 1. lékařská fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze a Ústřední vojenská nemocnice - Vojenská fakultní nemocnice, Praha

Headache is a very common symptom that a patient presents with in the acute outpatient clinic. Repeated migraine-like headache can be misleading and lead to partial downplaying of the difficulty, but it is of course appropriate to perform an imaging examination if this has not already been done. We present here an example of a young patient who visited our outpatient clinic in similar circumstances with very surprising findings on neuroimaging, her diagnosis, treatment, and evolution over time. We demonstrate here the importance of assessing the sensitivity of individual tests and, even if the diagnostic criteria were not met, the high suspicion of a disease that is very rare in our country.

Keywords: cephalea, neurocysticercosis.

Received: October 1, 2022; Revised: November 28, 2022; Accepted: January 9, 2023; Prepublished online: January 9, 2023; Published: April 21, 2023  Show citation