title: [Clinical and etiological considerations about the symptomatic epileptic syndromes with occipital paroxism blocked when the eyes open].
abstract: The syndrome of idiopathic partial epilepsy with occipital paroxysms in the EEG shows a considerable clinical heterogeneity. The present paper investigated the significance of electrophysiologic and clinical characteristics in eight patients with occipital paroxysms blocked by the eye opening. All patients were submitted to radiological exams including brain MRI and/or CT. There was agreement between EEG findings and type of seizures in 5 patients and between anatomical abnormalities in the MRI or CT and EEG focal abnormalities in 7 patients. Our results confirm that the unusual pattern comes from eletrographic multifactors origins.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Gilson Edmar Gonçalves e
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Maria Eunice de Vasconcelos Xavier
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Coelho
authors.forename: Silvia Gomes
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Laurentino
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005143:Eyelids / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Considerações clínicas e etiológicas das síndromes epilépticas sintomáticas com paroxismos occipitais bloqueados à abertura dos olhos.