Complex Partial Seizures in Childhood

Abstract. A clinical and electroencephalographic study was undertaken on 215 children with complex partial seizures as selected on the basis of the International Classification of Epileptic Seizures (1981).

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  Complex partial seizures were noted in 7.8% of the epileptic children.
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  The ictal symptoms of complex partial seizures closely resembled those of psychomotor triad described by Lennox.
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  Interictal EEG revealed seizure discharges from the temporal or frontal focus in 57.2%.
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  There existed a group with automatism as a main symptom having both diffuse slow spike-waves and focal temporal spikes. This type should be interpreted to be one of secondary generalized epilepsies and be a variant of the Lennox syndrome.