[Acute childhood hemiplegia ]

Stroke in children has been considered to be the most important cause of acute infantile hemiplegia. The author studied 32 patients with childhood stroke. Of the patients 20 had ischemic stroke, and 12 had hemorrhagic stroke. There is an increase of ischemic stroke cases without known predisposing factors in spring. The possibility of nasopharyngeal infection of ischemic stroke in childhood is emphasized.