RT Book, Section
A1 Caraballo, Roberto H.
A2 Duchowny, Michael
A2 Cross, J. Helen
A2 Arzimanoglou, Alexis
SR Print(0)
ID 1138410749
T1 Benign Occipital Epilepsies
T2 Pediatric Epilepsy
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071496216
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138410749
RD 2024/04/25
AB Gastaut  presented  a  series  of  36  patients  with  seizures  suggesting  occipital  lobe  origin,  associated  migraine-like  symptoms,  and  occipital  paroxysms  of  spike-waves,  and  proposed  this  condition  as  a  new  epileptic  syndrome  in  childhood.1  The  1989  International  League  Against  Epilepsy  (ILAE)  Commission  named  this  syndrome  "childhood  epilepsy  with  occipital  paroxysms"  and  included  it  in  the  group  of  localization-related  idiopathic  epilepsies  together  with  benign  childhood  epilepsy  with  centrotemporal  spikes  (BCECTSs).2  In  1989,  two  studies  by  Panayiotopoulos  based  on  a  long  follow-up  of  his  patients  called  attention  to  a  specific  cluster  of  symptoms  present  in  what  he  called  "benign  nocturnal  childhood  occipital  epilepsy  (COE)."3,4  Vomiting  as  an  ictal  symptom  and  "cerebral  insult-like"  partial  status  epilepticus  including  autonomic  symptoms  were  the  most  striking  clinical  manifestations.3,4  Thereafter,  several  authors  preferred  the  eponymic  nomenclature  of  "Panayiotopoulos  syndrome"  (PS)  in  order  to  include  patients  with  and  without  occipital  spikes  or  occipital  ictal  origins.5,6,7