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Seizure in benign epilepsy with centro‐temporal spikes
Author(s) -
Kanabar Gorande,
Sully Maggie,
Walsh Katy,
Chawla Kavita
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
epileptic disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.673
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1950-6945
pISSN - 1294-9361
DOI - 10.1684/epd.2010.0346
Subject(s) - epilepsy , electroencephalography , rolandic epilepsy , audiology , medicine , psychology , neuroscience
Rolandic epilepsy is frequent in children but seizures are rarely seen by the physician or captured by video‐EEG monitoring. In most children the attacks are few and sporadic and generally occur at night. Also, a high percentage of children with benign epilepsy with centro‐temporal spikes (BECTS) have characteristic centro‐temporal spikes based on routine EEG monitoring and therefore do not require further tests such as telemetry or sleep studies. We report a video‐EEG recording of a seizure in a patient with rolandic epilepsy which may be useful for educational purposes. [Published with video sequences]