Computerized tomography brain scanning in the diagnosis of partial epilepsy in children.

Abstract

Computerized tomography brain scanning was performed on 120 children with partial epileptic seizures, that had been hospitalized at the Paediatric Department of the Neurological Clinic and in the Clinic of Developmental Neurology of the Medical School in Poznań. Abnormal CT brain scans were detected in 53 (44.2%) cases. The abnormalities consisted mainly of focal or generalized atrophies. Pathological CT scans were found most frequently in cases with simple partial epileptic seizures and in patients with signs of focal organic lesions in the brain. However, in 31.6% of epileptic children without obvious neurological deficits--pathological CT scans were detected as well.