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Start free with EleplanSelf-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes
ORPHA:1945Disease
Also called BECRS · BECTS · BRE · Benign epilepsy of childhood with centrotemporal spikes · Benign familial epilepsy of childhood with rolandic spikes · Benign rolandic epilepsy · Centrotemporal epilepsy · Rolandic epilepsy · SeLECTS
What it is
A rare focal childhood epilepsy characterized by seizures involving unilateral facial sensory-motor symptoms, with electroencephalogram (EEG) showing sharp biphasic waves over the rolandic region. It is an age-related epilepsy, with excellent outcome. Self-Limited Epilepsy with CentroTemporal Spikes (SeLECTS) was formerly known as benign Rolandic epilepsy or benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- 1-5 / 10 000 (annual incidence, Sweden)
- Age of onset
- Childhood
- Inheritance
- Autosomal dominant
- Classified as
- Disease
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Common30–79%
7These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
Genes
ICD-10 codes
ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Benefit programs to look at
Programs whose eligibility touches the same ICD-10 categories. Eligibility is decided by the administering agency, never by this page.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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