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AAP Grand Rounds 19:56 (2008)
© 2008 American Academy of Pediatrics

Clinical and EEG Features of Occipital Epilepsy Syndromes

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PICO Question: Among children with childhood epilepsy of Gastaut, what are the most common clinical and EEG findings? Question type: Prognosis Study design: Retrospective review

 

A study to determine the clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) features and evolution of childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut (COE-G) was undertaken by the authors from Hospital National de Pediatria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The study population consisted of 33 patients identified and followed for COE-G between 1990 and 2007. In contrast, 201 children with Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS), an early-onset benign occipital epilepsy with autonomic symptoms, and 418 children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) were registered at the same institution over the same 16-year period. Age at onset of COE-G ranged from 4 to 16 years, with a mean of 8.5 years. Febrile seizures occurred in five patients (15%), migraine in three (9%), and BCECTS in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J. Gordon Millichap, MD, FAAP

Neurology, Children’s Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL