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Abstract
The epilepsies are heterogeneous collection of neurological conditions and syndromes characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizure activity. Epilepsy remains one of the most common neurological disorders encountered in clinical practice. Epilepsy affect about 50 million people world wide. Its incidence is highest among young children and after the age of 65 years. In the first year of life,incidence is about 50-70 per 100000 per year.The aim of this work is to study risk factors among Egyptian children in both urban and rural area and to compare it with previous studies in the different countries in order to find if there are special Egyptian risk factors of pediatric epilepsy.This study carried out on 60 epileptic children attending the pediatric neurology department, menoufiya university hospital. Each patient was subjected to: detailed history taking with special stress on perinatal history, family history and history of seizure disorders (types, frequency, etiology and description of seizure disorder),though general and neurological examination. Investigations were done for the cases including: brain MRI and EEG recording.The patients were classified into two groups according to the etiology of epilepsy: group I (idiopathic epilepsy) and group II (symptomatic or cryptogenic epilepsy). Also, they were divided into three groups according to the age of epilepsy onset: before one year(infantile group), between one and twelve years (early childhood group) and lastly from twelve to sixteen years (late childhood group).The mean age of the patients was 113±68.4 months. Male sex presented (52%). Most of the patients from rural areas (67%).