PEDIATRICS Vol. 65 No. 3 March 1980, pp. 677-678
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Letters to the Editor

Karin B. Nelson MD1 and Jonas H. Ellenberg Phd1

1 National Institute of Neurological and, Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20205

Drs Livingston, Pauli, and Pruce question our categorization of spontaneous seizure disorders following febrile seizures. We used two terms, afebrile seizure and epilepsy. The former term was nonrestrictive, and included all children who had one or more afebrile seizures, whatever the time of occurrence. We reserved the term epilepsy to identify that subset of children with afebrile seizures whose afebrile seizures were recurrent and relatively active, that is, children whose afebrile seizures constituted a clinical problem.