Pediatric Epilepsy Syndromes 06

Topic: Pediatric

Created on Thursday, October 4 2007 by jdmiles

Last modified on Thursday, October 4 2007.

 
        A) Focal motor, gelastic, and generalized tonic-clonic
 
        B) Absence, myoclonic, and complex partial
 
        C) Complex partial, generalized tonic-clonic, and absence
 
        D) Myoclonic, generalized tonic-clonic, and absence
 
        E) Absence and myoclonic
 

 

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ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

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A) focal motor, gelastic, and generalized tonic-clonic

This answer is incorrect.

This child has childhood absence epilepsy.  Absence seizures are, by definition, seen in this syndrome. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures occur in about 50% of patients.  A minority of patients have myoclonic seizures.  Gelastic seizures are not associated with this syndrome. Childhood absence epilepsy is a generalized epilepsy syndrome, so focal motor seizures would not typically be seen.  (See References)

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B) absence, myoclonic, and complex partial

This answer is incorrect.

This child has childhood absence epilepsy.  Absence seizures are, by definition, seen in this syndrome. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures occur in about 50% of patients.  A minority of patients have myoclonic seizures.  Complex partial seizures are not associated with this syndrome.  (See References)

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C) complex partial, generalized tonic-clonic, and absence

This answer is incorrect.

This child has childhood absence epilepsy.  Absence seizures are, by definition, seen in this syndrome. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures occur in about 50% of patients.  A minority of patients have myoclonic seizures.  Complex partial seizures are not associated with this syndrome.  (See References)

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D) myoclonic, generalized tonic-clonic, and absence

This answer is correct.

This child has childhood absence epilepsy. While absence seizures are the sine qua non of this syndrome, generalized tonic-clonic seizures occur in about 50% of patients.  A minority of these patients will also have myoclonic seizures.  (See References)

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E) absence and myoclonic

This answer is incorrect.

This child has childhood absence epilepsy.  Absence seizures are, by definition, seen in this syndrome. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures occur in about 50% of patients.  A minority of patients have myoclonic seizures.  (See References)

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References:

1. Levin, K.H., and Luders, H.O. (Eds.) (2000). Comprehensive Clinical Neurophysiology. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia.
2. Trescher, W.H., and Lesser, R.P. (2004). The epilepsies. In Bradley, W.G., Daroff, R.B., Fenichel, G.M., and Jankovic, J. (Eds.). Neurology in Clinical Practice, Fourth Edition. Butterworth Heinemann, Philadelphia, pp. 1953-1992.

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Pediatric Epilepsy Syndromes 06
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