Macular Vascular Migraine

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Article updated and reviewed by Peter B. Kang, MD, Assistant in Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston, and Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA on March 30, 2005.

A migraine is a specific and common form of headache that has been known since antiquity. It has traditionally been classified as a vascular headache due to the belief that it is due to abnormal changes in blood vessel tone, although the mechanism now appears to be more complicated than that.

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