08Diseases of the nervous system
Epilepsy or seizures
8A68Types of seizures
8A68.1
category
Absence seizures, atypical
Definition Absence seizures with changes in tone more pronounced than in typical absences or with non-abrupt onset and/or cessation, often associated with slow, irregular, generalised spike-wave activity.
Also indexed as
Absence seizures, atypical
Nearby in Types of seizures
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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