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focal seizure

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focal seizure [¦fō·kəl ′sē·zhər]
(medicine)
An epileptic manifestation of a restricted nature, usually without loss of consciousness, due to irritation of a localized area of the brain.


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Focal seizures, also called partial seizures, happen in just one part of the brain.
Fourteen chapters cover optimal use of the EEG and brain imaging in diagnosis and management, principles of therapy, neonatal seizures and syndromes, encephalopathies, severe neorcortical epileptic syndromes, benign focal seizures, idiopathic generalized epilepsies, familial focal epilepsies, symptomatic and probably symptomatic focal epilepsies, reflex seizures and reflex epilepsies, and a pharmacopoeia of prophylactic antiepileptic drugs.
To the Editor: A 38-year-old, HIV-seropositive Nigerian man sought treatment with an 8-month history of severe parietal headache, impaired memory, fatigue, paresthesia of the left arm, and left-sided focal seizures.
 
 
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