[Epidemiologic study of 500 adult epileptics from a hospital population].

An epidemiology analysis is carried out in a hospital population of 500 epileptic patients older than 14 years of age, pertaining to the outpatient department of the Instituto de Neurología, Hospital de Clínicas, Monevideo". This information gathered, corresponds to the period, 1966-1975. Specially formulated records of precoded-type data were used for this research and the data was processed by automation.