8A61.12

Epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures

Epilepsia da infância com crises epilépticas migratórias focais

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Definition

Epilepsy syndrome with onset between the first week of life and seven months of intractable, polymorphous focal seizures. Psychomotor development progressively deteriorates. A mutation of SCN1A may be found. The EEG shows multifocal, varying sites of seizure onset, and diffuse slowing.

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Epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures