[Etiology of epilepsy in adolescents].
OBJECTIVE
To review the etiology of epilepsies in adolescent patients treated at the Child Neurology Clinic, during the years 1995-1997.


METHODS
All 13 years old patients, or older, were selected and considered adolescents.


CONCLUSIONS
A total of 863 patients with epileptic seizures were reviewed. Among them, 225 were epileptic adolescents and another 8 were adolescents with a single seizure or with several seizures clustering into a single event. Among the former, 163 suffered from partial epilepsy and 62 from generalized epilepsy. Partial epilepsies were distributed as: idiopathic (69), remote symptomatic (49) and cryptogenic (45). Generalized epilepsies were: idiopathic (22), cryptogenic (16) and cryptogenic-remote symptomatic (24). The latter included the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, West syndrome, polymorphic epilepsy, etc. The etiology of these patients and related literature are reviewed in order to study the proper nosologic location of these entities.
Prats
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Unidad de Neuropediatría, Hospital de Cruces, Barakaldo, Vizcaya, España.
Garaizar
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012008:Recurrence