[Infantile cerebral palsy and its relation to electroencephalographic changes and epilepsy]

The authors have realized a retrospective study over 100 patients affected by cerebral palsy and selected at random. Various parameters have been examined, especially the incidence of epilepsy and its relations with electroencephalographic (EEG) alterations. The conclusion is that epilepsy appears in more than 50% of the patients and is quite always accompanied by EEG alterations. Its appearance is precocious, usually no more than 4 years after the beginning of the illness, and worsens the intellectual deterioration which is usual in these patients. A precocious and prolonged treatment yields very advantageous results in more than 50% of the patients and important improvements in 21% of them. No results were obtained in the 15%.