The relationship between the components of idiopathic focal epilepsy

Abstract

The idiopathic focal epilepsies members Landau-Kleffner syndrome a. Historically:The original work made it for Landau and Kleffner and published in 1957 reports the cases of five children with epilepsy and acquired aphasia. The clinical findings of these patients were generalized, partial, myoclonic, or absence seizures, all developed aphasia for different periods of time. In the EEG was evident a paroxysmal disorder, usually bilateral, often more predominant in temporal localization with generalized spikes. 3 After that in 1992, Paquiet et al, publish the first review of the literature about it. 4 In 1999 Rossi et al. 5 and in 2003 Mukhinet al describe the EEG findings and progression in patients with LKS. 6 In 2001 Robinson et al, demonstrated that children with ESES have no presence of clinical alteration in language capacities in relation with LKS 7 and in 2004 McVicar and Shinnar confirmed that clinically the syndrome present a limitation in the language