{"id":7950,"date":"2025-11-13T17:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:29:09","slug":"wicked-spikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wicked-spikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinterpretation of wicket spikes."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wicket Spikes: Patr\u00f3n EEG Benigno<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Los wicket spikes son patrones EEG benignos, frecuentes en estados de relajaci\u00f3n, somnolencia o hiperventilaci\u00f3n. Su aspecto recuerza un wicket de cricket, lo que les da el nombre.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Caracter\u00edsticas clave<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n  <li><strong>Morfolog\u00eda:<\/strong> Ondas afiladas, en forma de sierra o punta, con frecuencia entre 6 y 11 Hz.<\/li>\n  <li><strong>Localizaci\u00f3n:<\/strong> Predominan en regiones centrales y temporales, sim\u00e9tricas bilaterales.<\/li>\n  <li><strong>Distribuci\u00f3n:<\/strong> Aparecen en clusters, con patr\u00f3n r\u00edtmico y repetitivo.<\/li>\n  <li><strong>Contexto:<\/strong> Se observan durante relajaci\u00f3n, sue\u00f1o leve o hiperventilaci\u00f3n.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.webp\" alt=\"Ejemplo de wicket spikes en derivaciones centrales y temporales, con morfolog\u00eda de punta y frecuencia entre 6-11 Hz.\" class=\"wp-image-8022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image.webp 740w, https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-18x10.webp 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption>Figura 1: Wicket spikes t\u00edpicos en derivaciones centrales y temporales, con morfolog\u00eda caracter\u00edstica de punta y frecuencia entre 6-11 Hz. Patr\u00f3n benigno asociado a relajaci\u00f3n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-8-703x1024.png\" alt=\"Comparaci\u00f3n visual entre wicket spikes (izquierda) y descargas epileptiformes (derecha), destacando diferencias en morfolog\u00eda y simetr\u00eda.\" class=\"wp-image-8114\" style=\"width:428px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-8-703x1024.png 703w, https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-8-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-8-768x1118.png 768w, https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-8-8x12.png 8w, https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-8.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><figcaption>Figura 2: Diferenciaci\u00f3n entre wicket spikes (izquierda) y ondas agudas epileptiformes (derecha). Los wicket spikes son m\u00e1s sim\u00e9tricos, r\u00edtmicos y con morfolog\u00eda arm\u00f3nica.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Errores comunes de interpretaci\u00f3n<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n  <li>No confundir con descargas epileptiformes: los wicket spikes no son patol\u00f3gicos.<\/li>\n  <li>Claves diferenciales: simetr\u00eda, ritmo constante, morfolog\u00eda arm\u00f3nica.<\/li>\n  <li>Si aparecen durante hiperventilaci\u00f3n o relajaci\u00f3n, su significado es fisiol\u00f3gico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La correcta identificaci\u00f3n evita diagn\u00f3sticos err\u00f3neos de epilepsia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Referencias clave:<\/strong> Niedermeyer &#038; da Silva (2005); Husain (2016); Tatum (2013); Pramod Krishnan, SlideShare.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.webp 740w, https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-18x10.webp 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/drpramodkrishnan\/non-epileptiform-variants-in-eegpptx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\ud83d\udd17 Consultar recurso enlazado: Malinterpretaci\u00f3n de los wicket spikes.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicket Spikes: Patr\u00f3n EEG Benigno Los wicket spikes son patrones EEG benignos, frecuentes en estados de relajaci\u00f3n, somnolencia o hiperventilaci\u00f3n. Su aspecto recuerza un wicket de cricket, lo que les da el nombre. Caracter\u00edsticas clave Morfolog\u00eda: Ondas afiladas, en forma de sierra o punta, con frecuencia entre 6 y 11 Hz. Localizaci\u00f3n: Predominan en regiones &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wicked-spikes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Misinterpretation of wicket spikes.\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eeg","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}