RT Book, Section
A1 Aungaroon, Gewalin
A2 Hershey, Andrew D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1195237061
T1 Epilepsy in Children
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatric Neurology
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260457520
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195237061
RD 2024/04/24
AB ESSENTIALS  OF  DIAGNOSISAbout  a  quarter  of  childhood-onset  epilepsy  is  age  related,  has  characteristic  clinical  and  electroencephalographic  features,  and  has  favorable  prognoses  when  properly  treated  such  as  childhood  absence  epilepsy,  juvenile  absence  epilepsy,  juvenile  myoclonic  epilepsy,  early-onset  childhood  occipital  epilepsy  (Panayiotopoulos  type),  and  benign  epilepsy  of  centrotemporal  spikes.Some  epilepsy  syndromes  in  this  age  group  present  with  worse  manifestations  and  prognoses  such  as  Lennox-Gastaut  syndrome,  Landau-Kleffner  syndrome,  and  epileptic  encephalopathy  with  continuous  spike  and  wave  during  sleep.Early  recognition  of  epilepsy  syndromes  and  their  distinction  from  symptomatic  epilepsies  can  lead  to  appropriate  investigation,  treatment,  and  prognostication.