Probability: | Most often associated with: |
High probability of epilepsy (>85%): | |
Anterior-mid temporal spikes* | Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy |
Midline spikes¶ | Tonic-clonic seizures |
Hypsarhythmia | Infantile spasms (West syndrome) |
Slow spike-wave | Lennox-Gastaut syndrome |
Generalized paroxysmal fast activity | Lennox-Gastaut syndrome |
Moderate probability of epilepsy (<75%): | |
Frontal spikesΔ | Frontal lobe epilepsy |
Generalized spike-wave (≥3 Hz) | Absence epilepsy (3 Hz; CAE, JAE), juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (>3 Hz), and other primary generalized epilepsies |
Centro-temporal spikes◊ | Benign rolandic epilepsy of childhoood (BREC) |
Occipital spikes§ | Benign focal epilepsy of childhood (Gastaut and Panayiotopolous syndromes: the 2 variants of CEOP) |
Photoparoxysmal response | Primary generalized epilepsy |
CAE: childhood absence epilepsy; JAE: juvenile absence epilepsy; BECTS: benign focal epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes; BREC: benign rolandic epilepsy of childhood; CEOP: childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms.
* >90% probability of seizures/epilepsy (adults)[1].
¶ 76-91% probability of seizures/epilepsy (children)[2].
Δ ~75% probability of seizures/epilepsy (children)[3].
◊ ~40% probability of seizures/epilepsy (children)[3].
§ 50% probability of seizures/epilepsy (children)[3].Table modified and expanded from: Pillai J, Sperling MR. Interictal EEG and the diagnosis of epilepsy. Epilepsia 2006; 47 Suppl 1:14.
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