Periventricular Heterotopia and Absence Epilepsy

Abstract

A 7-year-old child with absence seizures and a 3-Hz generalized and occasional focal, spike-and-wave EEG pattern, responsive to treatment with valproic acid, had an MRI with periventricular nodular heterotopias, primarily right sided.

Keywords

• absence seizures
• occasional focal
• nodular heterotopias