La epilepsia como síntoma
Jefe de la Sección de Neurología. Hospital del Niño Jesús. Madrid, España. Correspondencia: Dr. José María López-Terradas Covisa. Servicio de Neurología. Hospital del Niño Jesús. Menéndez Pelayo 65. E-28009 Madrid.
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Epilepsy and seizures are often misinterpreted as identical phenomenon and treatment of seizures confused with treatment of epilepsy. In this paper the concept of both epilepsy and seizures are revised and also the more new etiopathogenics hypothesis, stressing the importance of etiological diagnosis for a suitable therapy and prognosis, which depends more of the etiology than the morphology of seizures.