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Pneumo‐Encephalography in a Pediatric Department Review of 214 Cases With Special Reference to Brain Atrophy
Author(s) -
VESTERDAL J.,
FOGHTNIELSEN K. E.,
THOMSEN G.
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1954.tb04009.x
Subject(s) - medicine , atrophy , corpus callosum , pediatrics , cerebral atrophy , cerebral palsy , epilepsy , pathology , physical therapy , psychiatry
Summary The authors review 214 consecutive encephalograms from children mostly suffering from epilepsy, oligophrenia, cerebral palsy, or various combinations of these symptoms. Sixty‐two patients had normal encephalograms, while almost all the others had more or less pronounced brain atrophy. Except in the cases with one‐sided symptoms, no conspicuous correlation existed between the nature of the symptoms or the electroencephalograms, and the character of the brain atrophy, except that most epileptics had normal pictures. Very often there was a disproportion between the severity of the clinical symptoms and the degree of brain atrophy visible on the encephalogram. In 60 per cent of the patients with hemiplegia or jacksonian seizures asymmetrical atrophy of the brain was founded. Agenesia of the corpus callosum was found in two cases. That no disease which could be treated neurosurgically was found in this series is, at least partially, accounted for by our practice of immediate transfer to the neurosurgical department of all cases suspected of brain tumour.