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Developmental Disorders and Pediatric Epilepsy

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Neuroimaging is a crucial part of the evaluation and work-up of pediatric epilepsy. Imaging evaluation of a first-time seizure most commonly utilizes CT and MRI to assess for acute etiologies such as febrile illness (encephalitis, meningitis), trauma, or CNS hemorrhage [1]. Imaging is more often abnormal in children with localization-related or remote symptomatic epilepsy [1].

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Chiu, A., Zeineh, M. (2022). Developmental Disorders and Pediatric Epilepsy. In: Franceschi, A.M., Franceschi, D. (eds) Hybrid PET/MR Neuroimaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82367-2_42

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