Possible Benign Partial Epilepsy.

نویسنده

  • Debopam Samanta
چکیده

1. Seizure semiology of these patients was not included in the study. Semiology may be helpful to further classify these patients as benign partial epilepsy in infancy with complex partial seizures versus benign partial epilepsy in infancy with secondary generalized seizures (SGS). Though, proposal was made to combine these syndromes in the past, some subtle differences exist such as predominant seizures during wakefulness, and temporal ictal onset with the first entity, but mostly extratemporal seizure onset was noted with the latter.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Indian pediatrics

دوره 52 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015