Article
Benign idiopathic partial epilepsy and brain lesion.
Epilepsia - 1 Mar 1999
Stephani U, Doose H
Abstract excerpt
A 14-year-old girl had severe head trauma from a dog bite at the age of 9 days. This resulted in extensive brain damage, tetraplegia, mental retardation, and epilepsy. The seizures were of rolandic type, and the EEG showed multifocal sharp waves. The course was benign. The initial diagnosis of a pure symptomatic epilepsy was revised after demonstrating typical benign focal sharp waves in the EEG of the healthy...
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