Word: epileptoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alpine Tracings. Sturge-Weber babies are not the only ones who suffer epileptoid seizures of this type. Their cases happen to be the most severe and rapidly progressive, making it imperative that the neurosurgeon operate in infancy. Much more common are cases in which there is no clear warning signal at birth. The seizures begin a few months later and gradually become more frequent and severe. In such cases the cause is brain damage, but not as the result of birth injury. The damage may be the result of infection or biochemical poisoning during gestation and may appear as scarring...
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