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Partial seizure
Classification and external resources
ICD-10	G 40.0-G 40.2
ICD-9	345.4-345.5
MedlinePlus	000697
MeSH	[1]

Partial seizures (also called focal seizures^[1] and localized seizures) are seizures which affect only a part of the brain^[2] at onset,^[3] and are split into two main categories; simple partial seizures and complex partial seizures

A simple partial seizure will often be a precursor to a larger seizure such as a complex partial seizure, or a tonic-clonic seizure. When this is the case, the simple partial seizure is usually called an aura.

Partial seizures are common in temporal lobe epilepsy.

References

^ focal seizure at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
^ partial seizure at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
^ "eMedicine/Stedman Medical Dictionary Lookup!". http://www.emedicine.com/asp/dictionary.asp?keyword=Partial+seizure. Retrieved 2008-12-07.

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Pathology of the nervous system, primarily CNS (G00–G47, 320–349)

Brain/
encephalopathy

Inflammatory

Encephalitis (Viral encephalitis, Herpesviral encephalitis) · Cavernous sinus thrombosis · Brain abscess (Amoebic)

Degenerative

Demyelinating

autoimmune (Multiple sclerosis, Neuromyelitis optica, Schilder's disease) · hereditary (Adrenoleukodystrophy, Alexander, Canavan, Krabbe, ML, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, VWM, MFC, CAMFAK syndrome) · Central pontine myelinolysis · Marchiafava-Bignami disease · Alpers'

Episodic/
paroxysmal

CSF

Intracranial hypertension (Hydrocephalus/Normal pressure, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension) · Cerebral edema · Intracranial hypotension

Other

Brain herniation · Reye's · Hepatic encephalopathy · Toxic encephalopathy

Spinal cord/
myelopathy

Inflammatory	Myelitis: Poliomyelitis · Demyelinating disease (Transverse myelitis) · Tropical spastic paraparesis

Other	Syringomyelia · Syringobulbia · Morvan's syndrome · Vascular myelopathy (Foix-Alajouanine syndrome) · Spinal cord compression

Both/either

Inflammatory

Encephalomyelitis (Acute disseminated)

Meningitis/Arachnoiditis: Bacterial (Tuberculous, Haemophilus, Pneumococcal) · Viral (Herpesviral) · Fungal (Cryptococcal) · Aseptic (Drug-induced)

Meningoencephalitis

Systemic atrophies

SA	Friedreich's ataxia · Ataxia telangiectasia

MND	UMN only: PLS · PP · HSP LMN only: PMA · PBP (Fazio-Londe, Infantile progressive bulbar palsy) · SMA (SMN-linked, Kennedy disease, SMAX2, DSMA1) both: ALS

see also congenital, tumors

v • d • e Seizures and epilepsy

Partial/focal	Simple partial · Complex partial · by location (Temporal lobe epilepsy, Frontal lobe epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy) · Jacksonian seizure · Nocturnal epilepsy

Generalised	Tonic-clonic · Absence seizure · Atonic seizure · Automatism · Benign familial neonatal · Lennox-Gastaut · West

Status epilepticus	Epilepsia partialis continua · Complex partial status epilepticus

Myoclonic epilepsy	Progressive myoclonic epilepsy (Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, Unverricht-Lundborg disease, MERRF syndrome, Lafora disease) · Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Other	Postictal state (Todd's paresis) · Landau-Kleffner syndrome

see also seizure types, Epileptogenesis, antiepileptics

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Partial seizure

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