title: [Absences and absence-like crises].
abstract: Under the same clinical picture the "absence" may group various forms of epileptic and non-epileptic disease entities, each having a different pathogenesis and a different EEG correlate. The investigative procedures, therapy and prognosis are likewise non-uniform. This suggests the need for a nomenclatorial division for these different nosological units and their classification into typical and atypical absences, absence-like partial (focal) fits, and paroxysmal nonepileptic disturbances of consciousness.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D014474:Unconsciousness / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Absenzen und absenzartige Krisen