Tonic Clonic Seizure
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Tonic Clonic Seizure Incidence
Facts about tonic clonic
seizure
:
About 200,000 people experience a
seizure
for the first time each year in the US.
About 4 million people in the US have had a
seizure
.
There are up to 100,000 new cases of
epilepsy
diagnosed every year.
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Tonic Clonic Seizure Symptoms
Related Conditions
Epilepsy
Febrile seizures
Petit-mal seizures
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Tremors and shakes
Loss of consciousness
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Last Updated: Jul 26, 2008
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Stephen J. Schueler, MD
;
John H. Beckett, MD
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D. Scott Gettings, MD
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