Medline ® Abstract for Reference 59
of 'Video and ambulatory EEG monitoring in the diagnosis of seizures and epilepsy'
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Auras are frequent in idiopathic generalized epilepsy.
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Boylan LS, Labovitz DL, Jackson SC, Starner K, Devinsky O
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Neurology. 2006;67(2):343.
The occurrence of an aura is often considered evidence of a partial rather than an idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndrome. The authors examined this hypothesis by prospectively recording reports of auras by patients being admitted for video-EEG monitoring. Auras were equally common (70%) among patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy as they were among those with localization-related epilepsy. Presence of an aura is not a reliable indicator of localization-related epilepsy.
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Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA. laura.boylan@med.nyu.edu
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