The syndrome of idiophatic partial epilepsy with occipital paroxysms in the EEG shows a considerable clinical heterogeneity. The present paper investigated the signficance of electrophysiologic and clinical characteristics in eigth patients with occipital paroxysms blocked by the eye opening. All patients were submitted to radiological exams including brain MRI and/or CT. There was agreement between EEG findings and type of seizures in 5 patients and between anatomical abnormalities in the MRI or CT and EEG focal abnormalities in 7 patients. Our results confirm that the unusual pattern comes from eletrographic multifactors origins.
occipital paroxysms; occipital seizures; occipital epileptic syndromes
