Anales españoles de pediatría
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Twenty full-term newborns showing acute neurologic symptoms of different etiologies, with neonatal paroxistic EEG tracings are reported. Clinical and electroencephalographic follow-up at three and twelve months confirmed in every case the presence of severe neurologic sequelae. A review of the literature is made, comparing the results of other investigators with those obtained in the present study specially from an ethiologic, clinical, electroencephalographic and evolutionary points of view.