Symptomatic epilepsy

Symptomatic epilepsy syndrome refers to epilepsy with a clear etiology. After embryonic formation, structural changes or metabolic abnormalities in the brain result in epilepsy lesions for various reasons. So it can be limited or diffuse, or it can be static or progressive. Its characteristics are: in addition to various types of seizures clinically, there are still various symptoms of the primary disease. Therefore, this type of epilepsy is often referred to clinically as secondary or acquired epilepsy. In addition, although some epilepsy are symptomatic epilepsy, it is difficult to find the exact cause. For this type of epilepsy, we call it cryptogenic epilepsy.

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