title: Posttraumatic seizures: an assessment of the epidemiologic literature.
abstract: Confusion about the risk of seizures following head trauma might in part reflect methodologic limitations of reported studies. This epidemiologic review emphasizes four methodologic issues: selection of cases, selection of controls, definition and ascertain of seizures, and definition, of seizures, and definition, classification, and ascertainment of trauma. Although the focus of this review is a set of reports of civilian injuries, the relevance of war studies to civilian injuries is also discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D004834:Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D012306:Risk; D012640:Seizures / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014857:Warfare