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Seizures in family members of patients with hippocampal sclerosis.
Neurology - 27 Nov 2001
Briellmann R S, Torn-Broers Y, Jackson G D, Berkovic S F
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To characterize seizures in family members of patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and hippocampal sclerosis (HS). METHODS: The authors systematically investigated family history (FH) of seizures in 66 probands with histologically proven HS, and in 51 control subjects. A positive FH was defined as at least one first-to-third-degree relative being affected. The odds ratio (OR) to be...
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