post-traumatic epilepsy
Findings
No curated finding names post-traumatic epilepsy yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Recurrent seizures causally related to CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA. Seizure onset may be immediate but is typically delayed for several days after the injury and may not occur for up to two years. The majority of seizures have a focal onset that correlates clinically with the site of brain injury. Cerebral cortex injuries caused by a penetrating foreign object (CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA, PENETRATING) are more likely than closed head injuries (HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED) to be associated with epilepsy. Concussive convulsions are nonepileptic phenomena that occur immediately after head injury and are characterized by tonic and clonic movements. (From Rev Neurol 1998 Feb;26(150):256-261; Sports Med 1998 Feb;25(2):131-6)
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0043264), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of