title: [Clinical and epidemiological features of the five kinds of new epileptic syndrome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical and epidemiological feature of the five kinds of new epilectically syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study was conducted, by computer inquiry and manual retrieval, on 5300 patients with complete history records who had been followed up regularly in the epilepsy center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing University in the past 20 years to discover the cases that could be diagnosed as with the five kinds of new epileptic syndromes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Survey was finished in 4894 of the 5300 patients. Two cases of familial temporal lobe epilepsy, one case of familial partial epilepsy with variable foci, fourteen cases with mesial temporal epilepsy, and five cases with startle-provoked epileptic were discovered.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients with the five kinds of new epileptic syndrome have been discovered in China too. It is beneficial to study the clinical and epidemiological features of those new epileptic syndromes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, Chongqing 400016, China.
authors.forename: Xue-feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ding-lie
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Li-feng
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013577:Syndrome