Children with lgs have seizures often, and they have several different kinds of seizures. Slow spike wave pattern in a 24yearold awake male with lennoxgastaut syndrome. Lennoxgastaut syndrome is a rare and severe kind of epilepsy that starts in childhood. Most cases of lennoxgastaut syndrome are caused by an existing neurological abnormality. Usually, lgs persists through childhood and adolescence to adult years. Lennoxgastaut syndrome lgs is a complex, rare, and severe childhoodonset epilepsy. Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report. It is characterized by multiple and concurrent seizure types, cognitive dysfunction, and slow spike waves on electroencephalogram eeg. Lennoxgastaut syndrome lgs, or childhood epileptic encephalopathy, is a pediatric epilepsy syndrome characterized by multiple seizure types. Fue descrito por lennox y davis en 1950, y posteriormente gastaut y otros, en. Clinical and electroencephalographic symptomatology of the genuine lennoxgastaut syndrome and its differentiation from other forms of epilepsy of early childhood. One of the most challenging areas in nosology is in the field of severe generalized epilepsy of early childhood.
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