Benign childhood seizures with occipital paroxysms of early onset
• Presentation:
- Age:5 years
- Seizures types:
* Eye deviation
* Consciousness affected
* Evolves to a generalized tonic-clonic seizure.
* Three out of 10 patients develop partial status epilepticus.
* Most seizures occur during sleep.
* Vomiting during the seizure
• Diagnosis:
- On EEG: occipital spikes
• Prognosis: excellent
• Treatment: none