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KMID : 0367419790200010050
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Journal of Korean Pediatric Society
1979 Volume.20 No. 1 p.50 ~ p.53
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Clinical Considerations of Convulsions in Children
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Abstract
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Total of 311 cases who were admitted to pediatric department of Kyung Hee University Hospital from October, 1971 to December, 1975 were studied clinically about the cases in various age group.
The results are as follows.
1) Convulsion was most frequent in children between 6 months and 3 years (38%), but it *was least frequent in children from 10 years to 15 years (7%).
2) The most common cause of convulsions in children was febrile convulsion (30.5%).
3) Tetanus (50.9%) was most frequent cause of convulsion in the neonatal period.
4) Febrile convulsion was most common in infants from one month to six months.
5) The most commor. cause of convulsions in infants from six months to three years was
febrile convulsion (47.8%).
6) In children more than three years of age, idiopathic epilepsy was most frequent cause of .convulsion (3 to 10 years and 10 years to 15 years, 36%, 72.75vo respectively).
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