Long Term Studies on Patients with Absence and Bilateral Spike-Wave Complexes: 430 Patients,up to 52 Years Follow-up

Loiseau P. Childhood absence epilepsy. In: Roger J Bureau M Dravet C Dreifuss F Perret A Wolf P , (eds). Epileptic Syndromes in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence. 2nd ed. London: John Libby; 1992: 135–150.

Livingston S Torres I Pauli L Rider R. Petit mal epilepsy: results of a prolonged follow-up study of 117 patients. JAMA 1965; 194: 113–118.

Currier R Kooi K Saidman L. Prognosis of “pure” petit mal. Neurology 1963; 13: 959–967.

Sato S Dreifuss F Penry J. Prognostic factors in absence seizures. Neurology 1976; 26: 788–796.

Dieterich E Baier W Doose H Tuxhorn I. Long term follow-up of childhood epilepsy with absences: epilepsy with absences at onset. Neuropaed 1985; 16: 149–154.

Sato S Dreifuss F Penry J Kirby D Palesch Y. Long-term follow-up of absence seizures. Neurology 1983; 33: 1590–1595.

Wirrell EC Camfield CS Camfield PR Gordon KE Dooley JM Long-term prognosis of typical childhood absence epilepsy. Neurology 1996; 47: 912–918.

Gibbs FA Gibbs EL Atlas of Electroencephalography. Epilepsy. vol 2. Reading MA: Addison Wesley; 1952.

Markand O. Slow spike-wave activity in EEG and associated clinical features: often called Lennox or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Neurology 1977; 27: 746–757.

Watson CW Bowker R. On the significance of circumscribed EEG abnormalities in genetic light sensitive states, including cases of genetic “centrencephalic” epilepsy. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1960; 12: 551.

Hughes JR Interdependence of age and alpha rhythmicity on epileptiform discharges and seizures. Dis Nerv Syst 1971; 32: 545–554.

Lombroso CT EEG evolutions in idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE). J Clin Neurophysiol 1996; 1315: 442.

Gloor P. Generalized cortico-reticular epilepsies: some considerations on the pathophysiology of generalized bilaterally synchronous spike and wave discharge. Epilepsia 1968; 9: 249–263.

Hughes JR Long-term clinical and EEG changes in patients with epilepsy. Arch Neurol 1985; 42: 213–223.

Dalby MA Epilepsy and 3 per second spike and wave rhythms. Acta Neurol Scand 1969; 45: 9–183.

Roger J. Prognostic features of petit mal absence. Epilepsia 1974; 15: 433.

Aicardi J. Epilepsy in Children. New York: Raven Press; 1986, 413 pp.

Giannakodimos S Panayiotopoulos CP Idiopathic generalized epilepsies in adults with onset of absences in childhood. Second European Congress of Epileptology, Epilepsia 1996; 37 (suppl 4): 87.

Giannakodimos S Panayiotopoulos CP Eyelid myoclonia with absences in adults: a clinical and video-EEG study. Epilepsia 1996; 37 (1): 36–44.

Janz D. Etiology of convulsive status epilepticus. Adv Neurol 1983; 34: 47–54.

Okuma T Kumashiro H. Natural history and prognosis of epilepsy: report of a multi-institutional study in Japan. Epilepsia 1991; 22: 35–53.

Nikl J. Changes in generalized patterns in young epileptic persons. Epilepsia 1996; 37 (suppl 4): 103.

Pearl PL Holmes GL Absence seizures. In: Dodson WE Pellock JM (eds). Pediatric Epilepsy. Diagnosis and Therapy. New York: Demos; 1993; 157–169.

Loiseau P Duché B Pedespan JM Absence epilepsies. Epilepsia 1995; 36(12): 1182–1186.

Gastaut H Zifkin BG Mariani E Ping JS The long-term course of primary generalized epilepsy with persisting absences. Neurology 1986; 36: 1021–1028.

Luef G Schauer R Bauer G. Idiopathic generalized epilepsy of late onset: a new epileptic syndrome? Epilepsia 1996; 37 (suppl 4): 4.

Olson SF Hughes JR The clinical symptomatology associated with the 6/sec spike and wave complex. Epilepsia 1970; 11: 383–393.

Hughes JR Two forms of the 6/sec spike and wave complexes. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1980; 48: 535–550.