Benign familial and non-familial infantile seizures (Fukuyama-Watanabe-Vigevano syndrome): a study of 14 cases from Saudi Arabia.

Purpose: Benign infantile seizures [BIS], familial and non-familial, represent a benign, age-related idiopathic syndrome of infancy. The aim of the current paper is to document the presence of the syndrome in Saudi Arabia and in Arab populations and to discuss the characteristic electroclinical features and the benign nature of this syndrome.

Patients And Methods: A case series of 275 patients with epileptic seizures (age range: 2 months-13 years) were followed over a period of 3 years and 7 months.

Cockayne syndrome in three sisters with varying clinical presentation.

We report three sisters showing the clinical features and investigational findings of Cockayne syndrome (CS). In the rehabilitation unit of Northwest Armed Forces Hospital (N.W.