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  • Title: [Significance of the EEG for various classifications of epilepsies. Results in 856 epileptic children].
    Author: Wässer S, Kasper JM.
    Journal: Zentralbl Neurochir; 1984; 45(4):318-25. PubMed ID: 6442080.
    Abstract:
    Although the Heidelberg classification is based on the phenomenology of fits, some EEG findings already imply certain epileptic syndromes. These are almost exclusively epilepsies with age-bound minor fits in which generalised peak potentials with characteristic morphology can be demonstrated. In Doose's classification, focal findings moreover mean the co-ordination to types of fits that are either focal or due to a focus. Focal findings in the EEG were more frequently found with a statistical high significance in epilepsies with focal or psychomotor fits and in Grand mal of a focal genesis. The co-ordination to the forms of the epileptic course of the International Classification is also carried out according to the morphology of generalised peak potentials and according to the presence or absence of focal findings and, less important, of general changes. As compared with Doose's classification, there are differences in spite of the application of the same principles that cannot be overlooked.
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