Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic
Recurrent seizures causally related to CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA. Seizure onset may be immediate but is typically delayed for several days after the injury and may not occur for up to two years. The majority of seizures have a focal onset that correlates clinically with the site of brain injury. Cerebral cortex injuries caused by a penetrating foreign object (CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA, PENETRATING) are more likely than closed head injuries (HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED) to be associated with epilepsy. Concussive convulsions are nonepileptic phenomena that occur immediately after head injury and are characterized by tonic and clonic movements. (From Rev Neurol 1998 Feb;26(150):256-261; Sports Med 1998 Feb;25(2):131-6)
Year introduced: 1992
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Tree Number(s): C10.228.140.199.650, C10.228.140.490.380, C10.900.300.087.600, C26.915.300.200.475
MeSH Unique ID: D004834
Entry Terms:
- Epilepsies, Post-Traumatic
- Epilepsy, Post Traumatic
- Post-Traumatic Epilepsies
- Post-Traumatic Epilepsy
- Seizure Disorder, Post-Traumatic
- Disorder, Post-Traumatic Seizure
- Disorders, Post-Traumatic Seizure
- Post-Traumatic Seizure Disorders
- Seizure Disorder, Post Traumatic
- Seizure Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- Post-Traumatic Seizure Disorder
- Post Traumatic Seizure Disorder
- Epilepsy, Traumatic
- Epilepsies, Traumatic
- Traumatic Epilepsies
- Traumatic Epilepsy
- Concussive Convulsion
- Concussive Convulsions
- Convulsion, Concussive
- Convulsions, Concussive
- Impact Seizure
- Impact Seizures
- Early Post-Traumatic Seizures
- Early Post-Traumatic Seizure
- Early Post Traumatic Seizures
- Post-Traumatic Seizure, Early
- Post-Traumatic Seizures, Early
- Seizure, Early Post-Traumatic
- Seizures, Early Post-Traumatic
- Late Post-Traumatic Seizures
- Late Post-Traumatic Seizure
- Late Post Traumatic Seizures
- Post-Traumatic Seizure, Late
- Post-Traumatic Seizures, Late
- Seizure, Late Post-Traumatic
- Seizures, Late Post-Traumatic