title: Generalized tonic-clonic and febrile seizures.
abstract: In general, children with febrile seizures have a good prognosis, and only a small minority of children go on to become epileptic. Most outgrow the tendency to have seizures, and the seizures do not appear to cause lasting intellectual or neurologic damage. Relatively few children need be exposed to daily anticonvulsant therapy, and these would be primarily children whose clinical picture is quite atypical.
authors.affiliation: Developmental Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Hirtz
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007360:Intelligence; D003294:Seizures, Febrile / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed