| Pituitary irradiation can induce remission of disease in more than one half of patients with recurrence after surgery. |
| Obesity, insufficient excision, significant skin maceration, and chronic skin infection may increase the incidence of recurrence. |
| Many patients have at least one recurrence of disease activity during the course of the taper. |
| If an anticonvulsant drug is used, the typical duration of therapy is one year, which represents the period with the highest risk of recurrence. |
| The continuous bleeding from the operated ear may due to some reparative granulation in the area or due to recurrence of the disease. |
| For decades children were given long term anticonvulsant drugs to prevent the recurrence of febrile seizures. |
