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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Sep 6.

Published in final edited form as: J Child Neurol. 2006 Jun;21(6):491–495.

Table 5.

Comparison of Slowing of the Background on Electroencephalographic and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings

	MRI		MRI-Specific Abnormalities^*
EEG Epileptiform Activity	Normal	Abnormal,n (%)	Cortical Lesions	Encephalo-malacia	White-Matter Lesions	Volume Loss	Enlarged Ventricles	Miscellaneous Lesions
Focal	9	8 (47.1)	1	0	3	2	4	4
Generalized	7	1 (12.5)	0	0	0	0	1	0
None	106	50 (32.1)	7	1	17	3	22	16
Total	122	59 (32.6)	8	1	20	5	27	20

EEG = electroencephalographic; MRI = magnetic resonance imaging.

^*

Children can have multiple MRI abnormalities.