evaluation of the available data indicates that embryo-fetal lesions alone or accompanied and/or superimposed by perinatal or postnatal lesions account for about 61 % of the cases confirmed by autopsy , in which infantile spasms can be regarded as fetal epilepsies , while a smaller group is featured by perinatal or postnatal lesions occurring in early age , i.e . affecting the immature brain .
C0014544
epilepsies
C0006104
brain