title: A practical, simple, and useful method of categorizing interictal EEG features in children.
abstract: We introduce a simple scheme of categorizing interictal EEG in patients with pediatric epilepsy. Five patterns of EEG can be determined by using 2 interictal EEG domains: organization of the background activity and a morphology/topography of epileptiform discharges. These patterns relate to commonly recognized categories of pediatric epilepsy: familial epilepsies, genetic generalized epilepsies, self-limited epilepsies, epilepsies with encephalopathy, and focal structural epilepsies. Each group has distinguishable clinical presentations, inheritance patterns, and outcomes. This categorization may be a useful educational tool; it may also guide decisions about further testing and management.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Pediatrics (S.H.K., A.J.K., D.R.N.), Epilepsy Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL; and Pediatric Neurology (C.M.K.), Child and Adolescent Department, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Se Hee
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Pediatrics (S.H.K., A.J.K., D.R.N.), Epilepsy Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL; and Pediatric Neurology (C.M.K.), Child and Adolescent Department, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Christian M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Korff
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Pediatrics (S.H.K., A.J.K., D.R.N.), Epilepsy Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL; and Pediatric Neurology (C.M.K.), Child and Adolescent Department, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Pediatrics (S.H.K., A.J.K., D.R.N.), Epilepsy Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL; and Pediatric Neurology (C.M.K.), Child and Adolescent Department, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. dnordli@luriechildrens.org.
authors.forename: Douglas R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Nordli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000145:classification* / Q000379:methods*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012189:Retrospective Studies