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Relative incidence of human absence epilepsy syndromes during first two decades of life
Relative incidence of human absence epilepsy syndromes during first two decades of life
The five syndromes show developmental variation in the ages of seizure onset and duration of clinical seizure activity.
In temporal order of peak incidence: MAE: myoclonic astatic epilepsy; EMA: epilepsy with myoclonic absences; CAE: childhood absence epilepsy; JAE: juvenile absence epilepsy; JME: juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
Data from Noebels, JL, Tharp, BR, In: Brain Development in Epilepsy, Schwartzkroin, P, Moshé, SL, Noebels, J, Swann, J (Eds), Oxford University Press 1995, p.73.
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