Seizures in adolescence. A review of patients admitted in an adolescent service.
The admissions of new seizure patients to an adolescent service over a 10-year period were retrospectively reviewed with regard to the patient's etiology, work-up, and outcome. Head trauma and pseudoseizures were common, 21% and 19%, respectively. In general, the outcome in adolescents appears to depend more on the underlying diagnosis than on how the seizure presents.
D000293:Adolescent; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000150:complications