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Pediatric Epilepsy Syndromes 02

Topic: Pediatric

Created on Tuesday, October 2 2007 by jdmiles

Last modified on Tuesday, October 2 2007.

What is the most common form of focal epilepsy in children?

 
        A) Childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms
 
        B) West syndrome
 
        C) Benign rolandic epilepsy
 
        D) Rasmussen syndrome
 
        E) Landau-Kleffner syndrome
 

 


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A) Childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms

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Childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (which is also called benign occipital epilepsy) is less common, and less benign, than benign rolandic epilepsy (which is also called BECTS or "Benign Childhood Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes").

  (See References)

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B) West syndrome

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West syndrome is a generalized epilepsy syndrome, not a focal epilepsy syndrome.

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C) Benign rolandic epilepsy

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Benign Childhood Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (also called BECTS, or "Benign Rolandic Epilepsy") is the most common focal childhood epilepsy syndrome.  (See References)

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D) Rasmussen syndrome

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Rasmussen syndrome is less common than benign rolandic epilepsy (which is also called BECTS or "Benign Childhood Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes").  (See References)

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E) Landau-Kleffner syndrome

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Landau-Kleffner syndrome, an acquired aphasia with epilepsy, does occur in childhood, but it is rare.  (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 02
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