Revue d'électroencéphalographie et de neurophysiologie clinique
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Rev Electroencephalogr Neurophysiol Clin · Oct 1977
["Spike focus" during the evolution of febrile convulsion: an electrophysiological and clinical study of 35 patients (author's transl)].
Out of 500 patients with febrile convulsions, 41 were found to have a spike focus on E. E. G., 35 of these were then followed up. ⋯ In 35 patients the focus disappeared, in 45 p. 100 within a year and in 88 p. 100 within 3 years. Following the disappearance of the focus, generalised sharp wave activity was seen in 30 p. 100 cases, all 35 children being under treatment. All the seizures with the exception of two children who have become epileptic were benign rendering long term anticonvulsant therapy unnecessary.