RT Book, Section
A1 St. Louis, Erik K.
A2 Sirven, Joseph I.
A2 Stern, John M.
SR Print(0)
ID 1103049288
T1 Primary Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures
T2 Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071597425
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1103049288
RD 2024/04/24
AB Generalized  tonic-clonic  (GTC)  seizures  may  be  either  primary  or  secondary  in  onset.1  Although  the  older  terms  grand  mal,  convulsion,  and  fit  are  still  widely  used  by  patients,  the  preferred  terminology  of  tonic-clonic  seizure  derives  from  intensive  correlative  analysis  of  GTC  clinical  seizure  semiology  with  simultaneous  ictal  electroencephalography  (EEG),  and  implies  a  usual  prototypical  progressive  sequence  of  clinical  movements  that  often  help  distinguish  this  seizure  type  from  other  predominantly  motor,  primarily  generalized,  or  partial-onset  seizure  types  (i.e.,  myoclonic,  tonic,  and  extratemporal  partial  seizures)  and  from  psychogenic  or  physiologic  nonepileptic  spells.1