ICD-11 classes
21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere...
Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of the nervous system
Symptoms or signs involving the nervous system
8A68 — Types of seizures
8A68.2 — Absence seizures, typical

ICD-11 8A68.2 — Absence seizures, typical

Seizures characterised by sudden onset, interruption of ongoing activities, blank stare, possibly brief upward gaze deviation, unresponsiveness, duration from few seconds to half a minute, and rapid recovery. An EEG would show generalised epileptiform discharges during the event.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.

The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:

• Types of seizures #6937
• Types of seizures #9044