Paediatrica Indonesiana (Jan 2019)

Cerebral Palsy : Review of 49 Patients

  • Gulhis Deda,
  • Ugur Karagol,
  • Yavuz Gurer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14238/pi32.3-4.1992.84-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 3-4
pp. 84 – 9

Abstract

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Fourty nine cerebral palsied patients admitted between 1989-1990 are reviewed according to type of paresis and the incidence of epilepsy and mental retardation. Eighteen (36,7%) of these patients were epileptic and 22 (44.89%) were mentally retarded. Out of 6 right-sided hemiparetic patients 3 (50%) had clinical seizures being all generalized tonicclonic epilepsy. In the left-sided hemiparetic group only 1 patient (16,66%) had clinical seizures being left-sided focal epilepsy.

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