Epileptic Disorders
MENUEpilepsy in children with congenital hemiplegia: correlation between clinical, EEG and neuroimaging findings Volume 4, numéro 4, December 2002
Illustrations
Christos Panteliadis, Gert Jacobi, Athanasios Covanis, Maria Tzitiridou, Urania Kotzaeridou, Georgios Arsos, Panagiotis Kardaras
3rd Department of Pediatrics, Hippokration Hospital, Konstantinoupoleos 49, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Page(s) : 251-5
- Année de parution : 2003
Introduction Congenital hemiplegia (CH), defined as unilateral motor disability, is the hemiplegic type of cerebral palsy (CP).It is the most common type of CP in full-term babies.Cerebral haemorrhage or infarct in the area of the middle cerebral artery, mostly unilaterally, is the cause of brain damage in about two-thirds of full-term neonates with CH, whereas congenital hemiplegia in the preterm baby is mainly the consequence of periventricular [...]