Key references: Childhood and juvenile absence epilepsies
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Shinnar S, Cnaan A, Hu F, Clark P, Dlugos D, Hirtz DG, et al. Long-term outcomes of generalized tonic-clonic seizures in a childhood absence epilepsy trial. Neurology 2015;85(13):1108–14. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26311751