Unilateral Headache with Visual Aura from a Wallenberg Syndrome

Abstract

Symptomatic migraine or migraine‐like headache due to a brainstem lesion is rarely reported, and limited reports of brainstem lesions with migraine‐like headache onset are all directed to the pons or midbrain [1, 2]. We describe a new onset of recurrent unilateral headache whose clinical features were similar to that of migraine with aura in a patient who had a lateral medullary infarction, i.e., Wallenberg syndrome.