Letter to the Editor

Visual aura of migraine versus visual occipital lobe seizures In their recent report, Queiroz et al. (1) supplement their previous study on the characteristics of migraine visual aura (2). They confirm previous studies by stat-ing that: the visual aura of migraine commonly lasts 5 to 30 min-utes, has a gradual onset, usually begins peripherally, is unilateral, and shimmers. It is slightly more often with-out color, and is often described as small bright dots and zigzag lines (1). They have also found that in some patients migraine visual aura may develop quickly, is short and may have multicoloured or rounded features. Nothing of this is new, as documented in numerous prospective an