Epileptic seizure semiology in infants and children

Epileptic seizure semiology (SS) in infants and children are more elementary compared to that of adolescents and adults. The added difficulty of reliably assessing the level of consciousness provides even less opportunities to observe localizing or lateralizing signs. On the extreme end, SS may be generalized in a setting of a focal lesion or may show focal signs with misleading localization values (Jayakar and Duchowny, 1990; Duchowny et al. 1992; Brockhaus and Elger 1995). We review SS of patients aged one month to ten years with respect to lateralization and localization of the epileptogenic zone.

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