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Aetiology of childhood epilepsy

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The syndromes of epilepsy in childhood may be conveniently be divided into benign and malignant:

  • children with the benign syndromes may be mildly affected, easily controlled or mature out of epilepsy
  • malignant syndromes result in treatment resistant epilepsy with severe or progressive motor and or intellectual disability

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