[Prognosis of benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes: clinical utility of objective diagnostic criteria].

Introduction: Studies about childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (CECTS), most of them retrospective, include patients with highly heterogeneous features.

Aim: To investigate the prognostic value of objective diagnostic criteria for CECTS applied at six month of evolution of epilepsy.

Patients And Methods: All patients with one or more unprovoked epileptic seizures (n = 827) were prospectively included.

[Frequency, semiology and prognosis of Panayiotopoulos syndrome].

Introduction: Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS) is an epileptic syndrome of childhood. Until now only a small number of studies have been published about this syndrome.

Aim: To study the frequency, semiology and prognosis of PS.