In the pediatric population, headache is a common presenting symptom, and migraine is often the diagnosis. A hemiplegic migraine is characterized by an aura and sudden-onset weakness on one side of the body that usually resolves without causing any permanent neurological damage. In this case, we present a seven-year-old male child with a known case of proximal tubular dysfunction (homozygous mutation in the SLC4A4 gene) who presented to the emergency department with a one-day history of weakness on the right side of his body.
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