[Reaction of short-latency brain stem evoked potentials to acoustic stimulation and electroencephalography in...

Multilevel CNS involvement in closed craniocerebral trauma was manifested by epileptic focus formation and development of posttraumatic epilepsy in roughly 10 to 30% of the cases. The issue of neurophysiological investigation of the late period of posttraumatic epilepsy is far from being well discussed in the literature. The authors revealed the changes of short-latency brainstem evoked potentials to acoustic stimuli in the late period of posttraumatic epilepsy, which are of major diagnostic importance especially in the cases without EEG pathology.