Childhood epilepsy
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https://doi.org/10.34024/rnc.2000.v8.8939Keywords:
Epilepsia na infância, síndromes epilépticasAbstract
Epileptic seizures represent one of the most frequently occurring neurologic disorders in children. Between 0,5% and 1% of children and adolescents experience seizures associated with other acute metabolic or neurologic insults; most of them occur in the neonatal period. The highest incidence of epilepsy is in the first year of life. West syndrome accounts for about 9% of all childhood epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome for 1% to 2%, childhood absence epilepsy for 10% to 15% and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy for 5%. Idiopathic localization-related epilepsy (benign rolandic epilepsy and its variants) may account for 10% of all childhood epilepsy but 20% to 25% of epilepsy are diagnosed between the ages of 5 and 15 years.
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