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Late-onset childhood occipital epilepsy (Gastaut type): a family study.
European journal of paediatric neurology : EJPN : official journal of the European Paediatric Neurology Society - 1 Sept 2008
Grosso Salvatore, Vivarelli Rossella, Gobbi Giuseppe, Di Bartolo Rosanna, Berardi Rosario, Balestri Paolo
Abstract excerpt
Late onset childhood occipital epilepsy-Gastaut type (LOCOE) is a rare idiopathic epilepsy syndrome with an uncertain long-term prognosis. Elementary visual hallucinations and interictal spike-and-wave complexes in the occipital areas represent the main electroclinical findings of the syndrome. The functional nature of LOCOE has been emphasized together with the presence of genetic predisposition in the affected...
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