TABLE 1.

Baseline characteristics of children (N = 120) with epilepsy syndromes

Characteristics	N	%
Male gender	83	69.2
H/O hospital admission	11	9.2
H/O status epilepticus	19	15.8
H/O recurrent seizures	115	95.8
H/O past febrile seizures	9	7.5
Presence of developmental delay	57	47.5
Family H/O seizure	19	15.8
Abnormal neurological examination findings	53	44.2
Abnormal EEG	108	90.0
Abnormal neuroimaging a	33	27.5
Adequate follow‐up (outcome known)	87	72.5

Abbreviations: CT, computerized tomography; EEG, electroencephalogram; H/O, history of; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; N, number.

^aNeuroimaging done in 85 children. 31 abnormal CT scans and two abnormal MRI scans. Five children had both CT and MRI scans of brain. All five of them had normal CT scans and two had abnormal MRI scans.