[Alice in Wonderland syndrome as persistent aura of migraine and migraine disease starting].

INTRODUCTION

Migraine with aura in children is often described, but communications of typical aura without headache are rare, and persistent aura and Alice in Wonderland syndrome are exceptional.

CASE REPORT

A 8 years-old girl who experiences during a month one to three brief episodes a day during which she relates: 'I saw things as little and remote, sometimes they moved; one day I saw my sister's books turning bigger, and another day my father getting little as a doll; sometimes my doll's leg swinged, or the blind in the window got up and down'. Later these attacks spaced out to one each to days for another two weeks. With no previous episodes of headache, these start two days after the visual distortions disappeared, with clinical features of migraine without aura. There were antecedents of migraine in maternal line, and no previous trauma, epilepsy, drug ingestion or psychiatric disorders. Clinical examination, cranial RMI, and EEG were normal.

CONCLUSION

Although Alice in Wonderland syndrome was described as a migraine aura, it is usually brief, and it is exceptional that it lasts longer than a week. We think this is the first description in a pediatric patient.