Benign childhood seizures with occipital paroxysms (late onset)
• Presentation:
- Age: 8-10 years
- Seizures types:
* Visual symptoms are followed by clonic seizure involving half of the body.
* Headaches occur after the seizures.
• Diagnosis:
- On EEG
• Causes:
- Genetic causes
• Prognosis
- not as good as the early onset type
• Treatment: needed (Carbamazepine is choice)