TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Epilepsy in Adolescents A1 - Holland, Katherine A2 - Hershey, Andrew D. PY - 2023 T2 - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatric Neurology AB - The incidence of newly diagnosed seizures is lower in adolescents than in younger children. Although focal epilepsy is still the most common epilepsy classification in adolescents, the etiologies of new-onset seizures are slightly different than earlier in childhood. For symptomatic focal seizures, acquired lesions (eg, head trauma, tumors, mesial temporal sclerosis) predominate over congenital or perinatal causes. Similarly, the epilepsy syndromes seen in this age group are different than earlier in childhood. More often, generalized epilepsy syndromes are seen and benign focal epilepsies resolve by this time. Because of the increased incidence of acquired focal epilepsies (over benign focal epilepsy syndromes), neuroimaging is recommended for adolescents with suspected focal-onset seizures and for those in whom the onset cannot be determined. SN - PB - McGraw Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195237117 ER -