Response to Correspondence on 'Childhood Epilepsy With Occipital Paroxysms: Difficulties in Distinct Segregation Into Either the Early-Onset or Late-Onset Epilepsy Subtypes'

摘要

The Commission on Classification and Terminology of the epileptic syndromes and epilepsies by the International League against Epilepsy rigidly segregated childhood epilepsy syndromes with electroencephalographic occipital paroxysms into 2 unique syndromes with different particular predominant epileptic manifestations: the early onset (Panayiotopoulos type) with prolonged infrequent, nocturnal seizures, which are marked by eye deviation and ictal vomiting and a late onset (Gastaut type) with short diurnal frequent seizures accompanied with ictal visual perturbations and headaches.