منابع مشابه
[Reflex myoclonic epilepsy in infancy: a new reflex epilepsy syndrome or a variant of benign myoclonic epilepsy in infancy].
CASE REPORTS We report a clinical and EEG study of 8 children with reflex myoclonic epilepsy of infancy to further confirm the existence of this syndrome first described by Ricci et al in 1995. RESULTS Between February 1990 to July 2002, we identified 64 epileptic patients with myoclonic seizures with an onset in the first six years of life. Eight (12.5%) of these patients had myoclonic seizu...
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Myoclonic epilepsy in infancy (MEI) is a primary generalized epilepsy. According to the literature, the outcome of MEI is usually benign. Here we report a patient who developed myoclonic astatic epilepsy at age four, having been seizure free without antiepileptic drug treatment for 2 years after his recovery from MEI. At age four, a video-EEG-recording showed frequent head nodding (atonic seizu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 1995
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-9-5-3