title: Occipital epilepsies in children.
abstract: Occipital lobe seizures, as defined by subjective symptoms and objective signs, can be recognized by clinical seizure characteristics in most cases. Visual symptoms such as hallucinations and amaurosis are the most common occipital lobe seizure symptoms. The patients must be classified in order to be able to define the prognosis. In this study, we classified patients with occipital epilepsy as childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (19 patients), idiopathic photosensitive occipital epilepsy (10 patients) and symptomatic occipital epilepsy (25 patients). They were evaluated according to clinical, electrographic and neuroimaging characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Ege University Medical School, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey 35100.
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gökçay
authors.forename: Figen
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gökçay
authors.forename: Ozgül
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ekmekçí
authors.forename: Ayfer
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ulkü
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012307:Risk Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed