RT Journal
T1 COnvulsive disorders of children
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD February 21
VO 169
IS 8
SP 896
OP 896
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03000250114032
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03000250114032
AB This book has been expanded from a manual which the authors originally prepared for the use of residents. It is a concise description of the problem of epilepsy in children from the clinical viewpoint. The first half of the book is taken up with practical classification and description of each of the various types of epilepsy, well documented with illustrative case reports and electroencephalogram tracings. The second half discusses seizures of other types, due to other causes, which must be considered in the differential diagnosis of epilepsy. There are short chapters on convulsive "equivalent" seizures, benign febrile convulsions, breath-holding attacks, and extracerebral causes of convulsions. There is also a chapter dealing with epilepsy in adults. From a practical viewpoint the chapters on the investigation and diagnosis of a patient with seizures and on the management of seizures are most valuable. For those unfamiliar with EEG's, the chapter describing this technique