TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Benign Occipital Epilepsies A1 - Caraballo, Roberto H. A2 - Duchowny, Michael A2 - Cross, J. Helen A2 - Arzimanoglou, Alexis PY - 2017 T2 - Pediatric Epilepsy 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 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138410749 ER -