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This chapter discusses traumatic perinatal seizures and crises following traumatic injuries during infancy. Because these are two completely different phenomena, they need to be analyzed separately. The newborn is not a small adult, not even a small child; newborn behave differently under both normal and pathological conditions.
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Chiofalo, N., Madsen, J., Basauri, L. (1986). Perinatal and Posttraumatic Seizures. In: Raimondi, A.J., Choux, M., Di Rocco, C. (eds) Head Injuries in the Newborn and Infant. Principles of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7183-4_15
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